Request, a NPM pkg with 55k dependents no longer accepts security fixes

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  • request

    🏊🏾 Simplified HTTP request client.

  • It's really that they no longer accept any fixes, as the library is officially deprecated.

    >As of Feb 11th 2020, request is fully deprecated. No new changes are expected to land. In fact, none have landed for some time.

    But 18,302,678 weekly downloads[0] haven't noticed...

    [0] https://www.npmjs.com/package/request

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