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chttps
is a minimal command line utility for replacing resolved http links on package-lock JSON files with https.
Chttps (Change http to https) was inspired by and initially based on https://www.npmjs.com/package/replace code. It has fewer config options and no dependency; whereas it is intented to only change the very first occurance of http links with https on each line i.e. without regular expression.
Caution: the input package-lock.json file must have line-breaks for each item and should be stored in utf-8 format.
npm install chttps --global
Then in the package folder you could use the command below to test the package-lock.json file & replace resolved http links with https.
chttps .
npm install chttps --save-dev
Then add the following line to the scripts tag within the package.json file of the desired module.
"scripts": {
"postshrinkwrap": "chttps ."
}
Replace all occurrences (i.e. the first ones on every line) of 'resolved": "http://' with 'resolved": "https://' in the package-lock.json in the current directory:
chttps .
Replace all occurrences (i.e. the first ones on every line) of 'resolved": "http://' with 'resolved": "https://' in the package-lock.json in another directory:
chttps "packageFolder"
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Command line utility to replace http links in package-lock with https
We found that chttps 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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