Faker.js VS Nest

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).

When using the NestJS framework, sometimes you may need to change some default timeout. You can define them just like you'd do in a plain Node.js HTTP server like so:

Back: a graphQL server built with Nestjs

NestJS - opinionated more scalable, but harder to learn docs

Pragmatically, we can apply this to a Nest application by creating an Interface for our services, separating the Presenter layer (Controller) from the Use Case (Services):

It’s a text document that contains all the commands a user could call to assemble an image. Let’s check an example of a Dockerfile for a nodejs app in this case it will be a NestJS app and then explain each part.

describe('Create bookmarks', () => { const dto: CreateBookmarkDto = { title: 'NestJS', link: 'https://nestjs.com/', }; it('should create bookmark', () => { return pactum .spec() .post('/bookmarks') .withHeaders({ Authorization: 'Bearer $S{userAt}', }) .withBody(dto) .expectStatus(201) .stores('bookmarkId', 'id')//store the bookmark id in the variable bookmarkId .expectBodyContains(dto.title) .expectBodyContains(dto.link) }); });

In my usual NodeJS tech stack, which includes GraphQL, NestJS, SQL (predominantly PostgreSQL with MikroORM), I encountered these limitations. To overcome them, I've developed a new stack utilizing Rust, which still offers some ease of development:

The purpose of this article is to provide a step-by-step guide for implementing authentication system in a NestJS project using the Passport middleware module.

That's exactly where I am. My manager gave me these links, that cover a lot of those words the backend uses, so I can identify what they mean and how to use them. 1. For inspiration and concepts: https://github.com/Sairyss/domain-driven-hexagon 2. Suggested to read the documentation for nest.js. They apply such concepts I don't understand: https://nestjs.com/