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Supply Chain Attack on Axios Pulls Malicious Dependency from npm
A supply chain attack on Axios introduced a malicious dependency, plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, published minutes earlier and absent from the project’s GitHub releases.
@backstage/create-app
Advanced tools
This package provides a CLI for creating a copy of the Backstage app.
You can use the flag --skip-install to skip the install.
With npx:
npx @backstage/create-app
With a local clone of this repo, from the main create-app/ folder, run:
yarn install
yarn backstage-create-app
FAQs
A CLI that helps you create your own Backstage app
The npm package @backstage/create-app receives a total of 6,017 weekly downloads. As such, @backstage/create-app popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @backstage/create-app demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 3 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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