GHSA-pjwm-rvh2-c87w VS enquirer

The SUNSPOT malware, Codecov breach, and lot of compromised open-source packages (like was the case with ua-parser-js) target the CI/ CD pipeline to modify release build or exfiltrate credentials.

I think you are misunderstanding the attack vector in the article you linked. This isn't the same thing we were discussing, please see https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pjwm-rvh2-c87w. This was not a compromise designed to go after the visitors of the website so far as I can tell (and even if it were, it couldn't do much except possibly steal a password if you entered it on a compromised site or steal cookie data). This was designed to target people who were using the library in their software, aka, it was targeting the build-chain of the developers, and many devs and companies as a result had computers compromised when the updated their versions, which caused the compromised version to download to their computers.

Github has published an advisory for the package https://github.com/advisories/GHSA-pjwm-rvh2-c87w

jonschlinkert (Jon Schlinkert) · GitHub

Although I'm happy there is a way to bundle Node.js apps with support for pnpm, and for a modern-ish version of Node.js, it's somewhat slow in my experience to build locally. Interactivity doesn't have the greatest ecosystem there, especially with TypeScript. Best library I've found is Enquirer.

{ "name": "@jonschlinkert/omit-deep", "description": "Recursively omit specified keys from an object", "tags": ["object", "deep", "remove", "omit"], "version": "0.3.0", "author": "Jon Schlinkert (https://github.com/jonschlinkert)", "repository": "jonschlinkert/omit-deep", "bugs": "https://github.com/jonschlinkert/omit-deep/issues", "license": "MIT" }

In case you need to ask for user input, optionally you can use a prompt file. This is very useful to customize the output of the generator. Prompts are defined using a library named Enquirer.

> I don't fully understand why packages like this are so popular.

It actually works like this: Author X develops `iseven`, `isodd`, etc. No one really downloads such packages. Author X then develops `importantPackage` which does do something useful developers out here download. Now `iseven`, `isodd` are downloaded alongside `importantPackage`.

My point is, we should recognize certain NPM authors as toxic, but I guess "freedom of speech/code" stops us from doing so. Example of such an author: https://github.com/jonschlinkert/

something like enquirer

You're thinking of Jon Schlinkert, publisher of 1435 packages on npm.

It's insanely funny to me that these packages exist while one of his bigger projects (https://github.com/enquirer/enquirer) lists the following reason under "why use it":

> Lightweight - Only one dependency, the excellent ansi-colors by Brian Woodward.

It's written by this guy, who shits out micro libraries by the hundreds. He moved the project to another user under the pretense that he was learning to program back then, but a lot of his stuff is similarly inconsequential micro libraries.