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6 days ago | about 1 month ago | |
JavaScript | JavaScript | |
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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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:
ua-parser-js
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Tell HN: Microsoft Teams is blocking Firefox Nightly
Just look at all the big companies doing it
https://faisalman.github.io/ua-parser-js/
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Liguard - The Linode Guard
This project is backed under MIT License, special shout out to project UA-Parser, as liguard uses a piece of its source-code.
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Modern PHP
With NPM, what's actually published is not what's in the git repo, so it's harder to inspect/review vulnerabilities or hijacking. With composer, what's in git _is_ what composer pulls (with the exception of rules in .gitattributes to exclude files etc), making it much easier to trace. One such example: https://github.com/faisalman/ua-parser-js/issues/536
Composer packages are vendor namespaced, so hijacking an abandoned package is not possible (and it is with NPM), some examples like https://www.theregister.com/2021/08/10/github_npm_package/
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Some developers are fouling up open-source software
Sure, I suppose in theory it could happen with other ecosystems, but for some reason it doesn't. It sure seems to just keep happening in NPM though.
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Vulnerable and Outdated Components
From the other side, npm package may be hijacked(as it happened recently for ua-parser-js and to other packages earlier). To mitigate that, I don't know, probably, subscribing to some security digest would be the most helpful.
- Red Hat response to Java release cadence change
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Secure software supply chain: why every link matters
On Oct. 22, 2021, developers of a very common NPM package, ua-parser-js, discovered that some attackers uploaded a compromised version of the package containing malware for Linux and Windows, and were capable of stealing data (at least passwords and cookies from the browser).
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Thoughts on improving security of Neovim plugins
Since Neovim 0.5 release (which has full Lua support) I see more and more amazing Lua plugins being developed, and I think this trend will likely to continue. But I recently got more concerned about security risks associated with the way Neovim plugins being installed and used (especially after seeing recent compromises like ua-parser-js or coa). Installing typical Neovim plugin is basically downloading and executing random code from the internet on your machine with your user privileges, so hijacked or deliberately malicious plugin could potentially do a lot of damage (like stealing keys/passwords, installing keylogger or just rm -rf / for fun).
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Hidden XMRig miner malware discovered in hijacked versions of popular ua-parser-js npm library
thread about compromise https://github.com/faisalman/ua-parser-js/issues/536
- Malware Discovered in Popular NPM Package, ua-parser-js
What are some alternatives?
vm2 - Advanced vm/sandbox for Node.js
react-device-detect - Detect device, and render view according to detected device type.
pnpm - Fast, disk space efficient package manager
bowser - a browser detector
corepack - Zero-runtime-dependency package acting as bridge between Node projects and their package managers
remarkable - Markdown parser, done right. Commonmark support, extensions, syntax plugins, high speed - all in one. Gulp and metalsmith plugins available. Used by Facebook, Docusaurus and many others! Use https://github.com/breakdance/breakdance for HTML-to-markdown conversion. Use https://github.com/jonschlinkert/markdown-toc to generate a table of contents.
Cargo - The Rust package manager
enquirer - Stylish, intuitive and user-friendly prompts, for Node.js. Used by eslint, webpack, yarn, pm2, pnpm, RedwoodJS, FactorJS, salesforce, Cypress, Google Lighthouse, Generate, tencent cloudbase, lint-staged, gluegun, hygen, hardhat, AWS Amplify, GitHub Actions Toolkit, @airbnb/nimbus, and many others! Please follow Enquirer's author: https://github.com/jonschlinkert
GHSA-g2q5-5433-rhrf
Serilog - Simple .NET logging with fully-structured events
feedback - Public feedback discussions for npm