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Re:Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoo... by neya on Monday April 13, 2026 @10:03PM (#47760395)
> I go out of my way to avoid using external packages.

I go out of my way to avoid Javascript. Because in all my years of writing software, it has 100% of the time been the root cause for vulnerabilities. These days I just use LiveView.

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Re:Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoo... by dakolli on Monday April 13, 2026 @10:43PM (#47760638)
HTMX > Live View
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Re:Someone Bought 30 WordPress Plugins and Planted a Backdoo... by neya on Monday April 13, 2026 @10:57PM (#47760717)
Sure, if that works for you, then great.
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