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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.
@proofmeid/commons-js
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The Proofme.ID Commons Javascript library exposes commonly used Proofme.ID functionality for integration in other projects.
The Proofme.ID Commons Javascript library exposes commonly used Proofme.ID functionality for integration in other projects.
This chapter shows how to build this library from source.
All build output is directed to the dist directory.
To build from source the following dependencies must be installed on your system.
To create a development build run the following command in the root of the project:
npm run build
You can also start the build with a watch enabled. This will recompile the project once a source file change is detected:
npm run build-watch
To create a production build run the following command in the root of the project:
npm run build-prod
To publish the node and web version of this library to NPM do:
npm run publish-npm-packages
This will run a production build and prepare the packages for distribution.
The directories which will be uploaded to NPM can be found at ./dist/node and ./dist/web.
You can also prepare these directories without uploading by running:
npm run prepare-npm-packages
We use Jasmine to unit test this project. To run all tests run the following command in the root of the project:
npm run test
FAQs
The Proofme.ID Commons Javascript library exposes commonly used Proofme.ID functionality for integration in other projects.
We found that @proofmeid/commons-js demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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