Early this month, the malicious attack on free-to-use libraries, namely color.js and faker.js, created a real uproar in the development community. These tools are used in thousands of projects and their downloading rate from npm is estimated in millions per week. To everyone’s surprise, it turned out to be an inside job. Marak Squires, the creator of these libraries, intentionally committed malicious code to his projects and published updated codebases on GitHub and npm. It is said that this sabotage was caused by unsuccessful attempts of Mr. Squires to monetize his projects. Fortunately, malicious packages were quickly removed and the attacker’s account was suspended. The story sparked a new wave of discussion in the development community on possible steps to make the development and maintenance of open-source projects more sustainable.

For anyone else curious about the allusion to Aaron Swartz, it can be found here and reads (as of posting):

Sorry little boy--- I needed to update my LinkedIn profile, hire a professional to write my resume and photograph me, and work on an open-source project no one will use (or worse- work on something everyone uses)"

So people, I've been reading the news regarding some great packages on GitHub, like the Colors and the Faker. I understand that this isn't related entirely with the linux community, but it is something that we should pay attention.

A developer appears to have purposefully corrupted a pair of open-source libraries on GitHub and software registry npm — “faker.js” and “colors.js” — that thousands of users depend on, rendering any project that contains these libraries useless, as reported by Bleeping Computer.

I mean he also maliciously changed all of the links on a faker.js issue to point to conspiracy theories (which I am pretty sure is against Github's TOS): https://github.com/Marak/faker.js/pull/2

About Four (4) Days Ago, the Author of Fakerjs a popular JavaScript library with more than 2 million weekly Download from NPM Deleted the repository and replaced it with one that only has the modified ReadMe "What really happened with Aaron Swartz?" and no content, and pushed an empty package to npm as the latest version (6.6.6).

import { inject, Injectable } from '@angular/core'; import { HttpClient } from '@angular/common/http'; import { toSignal } from '@angular/core/rxjs-interop'; export type Product = { id: string; title: string; description: string; image: string; price: string; }; @Injectable({ providedIn: 'root', }) export class ProductsService { readonly http = inject(HttpClient); readonly API = 'https://fakestoreapi.com'; $products = toSignal(this.http.get>(`${this.API}/products`)); }

export const notNextServerSideProps = async (fetch) => { const data = await fetch('https://fakestoreapi.com/products') .then(res => res.json()) .then(json => json); return { props: { title: 'All Products', products: data } } }

This is api for fake e-commerce data https://fakestoreapi.com/

Ne treba da kreces sa backom i da pravis nista sam jos uvek, treba ti neki REST API sa dummy podacima da konzumiras i prikazujes na svom frontu. Evo ti jedan

import useSWR from "swr"; import Image from "next/image"; const fetcher = async (url) => { const response = await fetch(url); if (!response.ok) { throw new Error("An error occurred while fetching the data."); } return response.json(); }; const ProductDetails = ({ id }) => { const { data: product, error, isLoading, } = useSWR(`https://fakestoreapi.com/products/${id}`, fetcher); if (isLoading) { return

Loading...div>; } if (error) { return

Error: {error.message}div>; } return (

{product.title}h1>

div>

{product.category}p>

${product.price}p>

{product.description}p> div> div> div> ); }; export async function getServerSideProps(context) { const { id } = context.query; return { props: { id, }, }; } export default ProductDetails;

{ "products": [ { "id": 1, "title": "Fjallraven - Foldsack No. 1 Backpack, Fits 15 Laptops", "price": 109.95, "description": "Your perfect pack for everyday use and walks in the forest. Stash your laptop (up to 15 inches) in the padded sleeve, your everyday", "category": "men's clothing", "image": "https://fakestoreapi.com/img/81fPKd-2AYL._AC_SL1500_.jpg", "rating": { "rate": 3.9, "count": 120 } }, { "id": 2, "title": "Mens Casual Premium Slim Fit T-Shirts ", "price": 22.3, "description": "Slim-fitting style, contrast raglan long sleeve, three-button henley placket, light weight & soft fabric for breathable and comfortable wearing. And Solid stitched shirts with round neck made for durability and a great fit for casual fashion wear and diehard baseball fans. The Henley style round neckline includes a three-button placket.", "category": "men's clothing", "image": "https://fakestoreapi.com/img/71-3HjGNDUL._AC_SY879._SX._UX._SY._UY_.jpg", "rating": { "rate": 4.1, "count": 259 } }, { "id": 3, "title": "Mens Cotton Jacket", "price": 55.99, "description": "great outerwear jackets for Spring/Autumn/Winter, suitable for many occasions, such as working, hiking, camping, mountain/rock climbing, cycling, traveling or other outdoors. Good gift choice for you or your family member. A warm hearted love to Father, husband or son in this thanksgiving or Christmas Day.", "category": "men's clothing", "image": "https://fakestoreapi.com/img/71li-ujtlUL._AC_UX679_.jpg", "rating": { "rate": 4.7, "count": 500 } }, { "id": 4, "title": "Mens Casual Slim Fit", "price": 15.99, "description": "The color could be slightly different between on the screen and in practice. / Please note that body builds vary by person, therefore, detailed size information should be reviewed below on the product description.", "category": "men's clothing", "image": "https://fakestoreapi.com/img/71YXzeOuslL._AC_UY879_.jpg", "rating": { "rate": 2.1, "count": 430 } }, { "id": 5, "title": "John Hardy Women's Legends Naga Gold & Silver Dragon Station Chain Bracelet", "price": 695, "description": "From our Legends Collection, the Naga was inspired by the mythical water dragon that protects the ocean's pearl. Wear facing inward to be bestowed with love and abundance, or outward for protection.", "category": "jewelery", "image": "https://fakestoreapi.com/img/71pWzhdJNwL._AC_UL640_QL65_ML3_.jpg", "rating": { "rate": 4.6, "count": 400 } } ], "current_page": 1, "reach_max": false }

I'm working on a side project using fakestoreapi.com to populate data.

I am wanting to build a fake e-commerce store as a portfolio project and I was wondering if there are any good ones. Only one I know of is https://fakestoreapi.com/. Any other recommendations would be greatly appreciated!

Learn more about the API on their website.