Q. Hi! Can you state your name, what you do, and/or what your company does? A: `open-wc` (Open Web Components) is an open collective of volunteer developers interested in web components and the web platform in general. Late last year we got together ... more
When I ask software developers what their biggest security concerns are, I typically hear something about malicious code in their npm packages. The average npm package has over 2000 dependencies, so the worry over malware makes a lot of sense. The npm ... more
Q. Hi! Can you state your name, what you do, and/or what your company does? A: My name is Razvan Stoenescu and I’m the founder of Quasar Framework, which is a Node.js and Vue.js-based system that helps developers rapidly create best-practice applications ... more
It’s been almost a year since npm acquired ^Lift Security and even less since the official formation of the internal npm Security Team. In addition to working on securing the Registry and its users, I’ve been setting aside time to think through how we ... more
I had the opportunity to chat with Adam Stacoviak recently about the journey of creating npm and turning that into npm, Inc., 4 and a half years as CEO, and the transition to my new role as Chief Product Officer. Along the way, we touched on some of ... more
Q: Hi! Can you state your name, what you do, and/or what your company does? A: Hey, I’m Golo, founder and CTO of the native web. We provide consulting, training and development for Node.js, JavaScript, and related technologies. Our speciality is designing ... more
I’m going to tell you a story. There are no villains in this story. Just smart people doing their best, and unfortunately working at cross-purposes through no fault of their own. The names and places have been changed, but it is a true story. I’ve heard ... more
Hi! Can you state your name, what you do, and what your company does? Hello! My name is Mark van den Brink and I’m a co-founder and tech lead of Tripetto. Developers can integrate our full-fledged form kit straight into their projects to wield an entire ... more
Protecting npm user accounts is one of the most important ways we help secure the JavaScript ecosystem. This is especially true for accounts that publish packages, as the npm ecosystem is the beginning of the supply chain for the world’s JavaScript. ... more
Coming up as a software developer in Open Source, I’ve long believed that the best path to success is to depend on the strengths of others. One reason why I wrote a package manager in the first place was that I knew the JavaScript community as a whole ... more
This study is adapted from my presentation npm and the Future of JavaScript. No data is perfect; if you have questions about ours you can read about the methodology used to gather this data. npm has over 10 million users who download well over 30 billion ... more
“Running a website in the early years of the web was a scary business. The web was an evolving medium, and people were finding new uses for it almost every day. From book stores to online auctions, the web was an expanding universe of new possibilities. ... more
Q. Hi! Can you state your name, what you do, and/or what your company does? AH: Hi! I’m Anthony Humphreys, Technical Lead at Lexio, I’m a full-stack developer and work on all the technical aspects of the business. JT: Hey, I’m Jessica Tebay, Operations ... more
Update: We rolled back this change around 2pm PST today, but will be rolling it out again soon. Did you recently get a 401 or an EINVALIDNPMTOKEN error when trying to interact with scoped packages? This is the result of some recent changes we made and ... more
This is an analysis of the event-stream incident of which many of you became aware earlier this week. npm acts immediately to address operational concerns and issues that affect the safety of our community, but we typically perform more thorough analysis ... more
Q: Hi! Can you state your name and what you do? A: Hi! I am Alexandre Levacher, a software engineer living in the south of France, working at Teads, the inventor of native video advertising and the leading Outstream Video Marketplace. How’s your day ... more
npm offers a way for security researchers, package users, package maintainers, and community members to report security vulnerabilities via the “Report a Vulnerability” button on npm Package pages. This provides the community a way to participate in ... more
Q. Hi! Can you state your name, what you do, and/or what your company does? Hi there! My name is Adam Reis, and I am the co-founder and CTO of Hello Club. We’ve created Hello Club to help reduce the workload and time spent on admin tasks for the volunteers ... more
Today the Node.js and JS Foundations announced an intent to merge. tl;dr – This is a good thing. I’m psyched. The JavaScript community is a big and diverse group of people, doing lots of stuff. Most companies in the world use JavaScript, and at npm, ... more
Q1. Hi! Can you state your name, what you do, and/or what your company does? I’m Amer Wilson, CRM Consultant at Rolustech, a certified SugarCRM and Salesforce Partner firm. We do CRM customization, implementation, and integrations and have been in the ... more
This post was written by Benjamin Coe, Product Manager at npm, Inc. and lead maintainer of yargs and Istanbul for the Node.js Collection. It covers work that has gone into introducing native code coverage support to Node.js. TLDR: You can now expose ... more
What if installs were so fast they could happen in the background, just by using Node? What every file in your dependencies could be guaranteed to be bit-by-bit identical to what’s on the registry? What if working on a new project was as simple as clone ... more
Q. Hi! Can you state your name, what you do, and/or what your company does? A. My name is Joe Hanley, and I am a full-stack software engineer at Capital One. We’re a bank, a credit card company, and a financial services provider, but we like to think ... more
As you’ve probably noticed, npm has been on a roll delivering security features. We have three new features on the website that we’d like to share: the report a vulnerability button, security advisories, and a feature that prevents the use of compromised ... more
NEW FEATURES 6e9f04b0b npm/cli#8 Search for authentication token defined by environment variables by preventing the translation layer from env variable to npm option from breaking :_authToken . (@mkhl) 84bfd23e7 npm/cli#35 Stop filtering out non-IPv4 ... more
This is basically the same as the prerelease, but two dependencies have been bumped due to bugs that had been around for a while. 0a22be42e [email protected] (@zkat) 0096f6997 [email protected] (@zkat) ... more
Following the eslint incident on July 12, 2018, the community reached out to us with a few follow-up questions. This post will answer those questions as well as provide some additional technical insight into the eslint-scope malware that we haven’t seen ... more