Re:Malicious code in the purescript NPM installer
by stephenr on Monday July 29, 2019 @04:33AM
(#20552583)
Thank you for linking to that dependency grapher.
The crab-grass like dependencies of many/most NPM packages is scary enough, and then they (or you?), I guess because of lazy loading, to improve responsiveness, update it as you watch.. It's like a scene out of an alien monster movie, where the creature keeps growing more limbs.
The crab-grass like dependencies of many/most NPM packages is scary enough, and then they (or you?), I guess because of lazy loading, to improve responsiveness, update it as you watch.. It's like a scene out of an alien monster movie, where the creature keeps growing more limbs.