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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.
cron-humanize
Advanced tools
Transforms cron expressions into human speech.
Examples:
CronParser.humanize('* * * * * * *');
// Fire every second, every day.
CronParser.humanize('10-20 10/1 12/1 ? 5/FEB 2-THU 2020-2022');
// Fire every second from 10 through 20, every minute starting at minute 10, past every hour starting at 12:00, every day, every month starting on June, only from Monday through Thursday, between 2020 and 2022.
- Support for L, LW, _L and _W units.
- Optional year parameter.
- Optional second parameter.
FAQs
Cron to human translator
The npm package cron-humanize receives a total of 621 weekly downloads. As such, cron-humanize popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that cron-humanize 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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