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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.
@up2sync/create-nodejs-ts
Advanced tools
A fork of "Node.js Starter ToolKit" by Vitor Hugo Salgado
Starter Project for a Node.js application using TypeScript with all boring stuff already configured.
Starter project for Node.js applications using TypeScript with test, lint, code formatter already configured.
Check the tooling section for more details.
The preferable way to use this boilerplate is using npx command. You can use npm init too.
Use the following commands to bootstrap a new project:
npx create-nodejs-ts --no --app=your-app
npm init nodejs-ts -- --app=your-app
Without parameters, the project will be created on a folder my-app in the same directory where you executed the
command.
All parameters available:
--destination=<FOLDER_DESTINATION> Defaults to the current directory
--app=<APP_NAME> Defaults to my-app
The final folder will the parameter destination, if provided, concatenated with the parameter app.
The project template now uses ESM by default.
Minimalist docker image generation.
Check this Dockerfile.
Run make up to spin up a local environment with Docker Compose.
Check this docker-compose.yml for more details.
This project is MIT Licensed.
FAQs
NodeJS Starter Project Kit
We found that @up2sync/create-nodejs-ts demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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