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Yarn 4.0
npm workspaces plus Wireit works far better than Lerna, in my experience.
https://github.com/google/wireit
Wireit's ability to specify actual script dependencies, do caching (and on Github actions), and it's long-running service script support make it much more useful and comprehensive than Lerna.
I agree that this should be built into npm. There's an RRFC for it here: https://github.com/npm/rfcs/issues/706
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NPM vs Yarn?
It's coming https://github.com/npm/rfcs/blob/main/accepted/0042-isolated-mode.md
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How do you know that the .exe or .apk file for an open source software on github is actually compiled from the viewable source code?
This just got accepted as a proposal in NPM: https://github.com/npm/rfcs/pull/626
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Why aren't Node.js package managers interoperable?
npm also plans to support pnpm-style node_modules
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Axios shipped a buggy version and it broke many productions apps. Let this be a lesson to pin your dependencies!
(I usually end up removing npm ci from CI/CD since I think it is way too slow and want to cache node_modules from previous builds; I'm waiting for https://github.com/npm/rfcs/issues/415 to land to make this fail-safe npm install --from-lockfile. Yarn does support this already)
- How to run multiple NPM commands simultaneously using concurrently
- [RRFC] Parallel script execution when value is set to an array of text. · Issue #610 · npm/rfcs
- Lerna has gone. Which Monorepo is right for a Node.js BACKEND now?
- NPM introduces a new Dependency Selector Syntax
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How to respond to growing supply chain security risks?
I started following this problem from the discussion at npm about making install scripts opt-in. But install scripts are not the only threat, there are more ways for malicious actors:
npm
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XML is better than YAML
The fact that JSON doesn't support comments is so annoying, and I always thought that Douglas Crockford's rationale for this basically made no sense ("They can be misused!" - like, so what, nearly anything can be misused. So without support for comments e.g. in package.json files I have to do even worse hacky workaround bullshit like "__some_field_comment": "this is my comment"). There is of course jsonc and JSON5 but the fact that it's not supported everywhere means 10 years later we still can't write comments in package.json (there is https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/4482 and about a million related issues).
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Jest not recommended to be used in Node.js due to instanceOf operator issues
Things like the sparkline charts on npmjs (e.g. https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm ) are interactive SVGs. I think they're pretty common for data visualizations of all kinds
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JavaScript registry NPM vulnerable to 'manifest confusion' abuse
I actually did a POC 7 years ago about this - https://github.com/tanepiper/steal-ur-stuff
It was reported to npm at the time, but they chose to ignore it - https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/17724
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I'm a Teapot
Every time this pops up, I'm reminded of the day that the NPM registry started returning 418 responses.
I remember being at a training course that day and my manager asking me what we could do to fix it because our CI was failing to pull dependencies from NPM.
Trying to explain that NPM was returning a status code intended as an April Fools joke and which was never meant to see the light of production was quite difficult
https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/20791
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Dissecting Npm Malware: Five Packages And Their Evil Install Scripts
I should really get around to how I discovered this 6 years ago and still nothing done about it
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Attackers are hiding malware in minified packages distributed to NPM
Whenever something like this comes up I usually have to tap the sign (and the original report)
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NPM Vs PNPM
NPM is not "Node Package Manager". https://www.npmjs.com/package/npm
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A not so unfortunate sharp edge in Pipenv
> which can be overriden with env setting
Support for this is not great. Lots of packages still don't support this properly. My experience matches the 2015 comment https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/775#issuecomment-71294085
> Not sure why "symlinks" would be involved.
If you make your node_modules a symlink, multiple packages will fail. Even if you're not interested in doing that, others are.
> What NPM does is leaps and bounds ahead
Unless you change your node / gyp version. It doesn't really have a concept of runtime version. You can restrict it, but not have two concurrent versions if they conflict.
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Front-end Guide
[email protected] was released in May 2017 and it seems to address many of the issues that Yarn aims to solve. Do keep an eye on it!
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Framework axios pushed a broken update, crippling thousands of websites
I think it's had been supposed to do that since forever. Apart from some bug in npm 5.3. Are you sure your package-lock versions actually conform to the semver ranges in your package.json?
What are some alternatives?
vm2 - Advanced vm/sandbox for Node.js
pnpm - Fast, disk space efficient package manager
corepack - Zero-runtime-dependency package acting as bridge between Node projects and their package managers
spm
Cargo - The Rust package manager
yarn - The 1.x line is frozen - features and bugfixes now happen on https://github.com/yarnpkg/berry
GHSA-g2q5-5433-rhrf
Bower - A package manager for the web
feedback - Public feedback discussions for npm
jspm