The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
is-buffer
Posts with mentions or reviews of is-buffer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-04.
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Ask HN: How do you (security) audit external software using NPM packages?
Yes, in this case I would put something like this on top of the file:
# Fork by TekMol of https://github.com/feross/is-buffer
isBuffer
Posts with mentions or reviews of isBuffer.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-04.
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Ask HN: How do you (security) audit external software using NPM packages?
I am actually never sure how to properly do this. Would the next forker write the following then?
# Fork by Joe of https://github.com/tekmol/isBuffer
What are some alternatives?
When comparing is-buffer and isBuffer you can also consider the following projects:
buffer - The buffer module from node.js, for the browser.
byrnesjs - A JS library to push less trusted code outside Jack's Circle of Trust
trivy - Find vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, secrets, SBOM in containers, Kubernetes, code repositories, clouds and more
magnet-uri - Parse a magnet URI and return an object of keys/values
ncc - Compile a Node.js project into a single file. Supports TypeScript, binary addons, dynamic requires.