Research
2025 Report: Destructive Malware in Open Source Packages
Destructive malware is rising across open source registries, using delays and kill switches to wipe code, break builds, and disrupt CI/CD.
By Kush Pandya - Dec 24, 2025
egg
Features
- Built-in Process Management
- Plugin System
- Framework Customization
- Lots of plugins
Quickstart
Follow the commands listed below.
$ mkdir showcase && cd showcase
$ npm init egg --type=simple # Optionally pnpm create egg --type=simple
$ pnpm install
$ pnpm run dev
$ open http://localhost:7001
Node.js >= 20.19.0 required, supports
require(esm)by default.
Documentations
Sponsors and Backers
License
FAQs
A web framework's framework for Node.js
The npm package egg receives a total of 18,398 weekly downloads. As such, egg popularity was classified as popular.
We found that egg demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 11 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 27 Oct 2025
Did you know?
Socket for GitHub automatically highlights issues in each pull request and monitors the health of all your open source dependencies. Discover the contents of your packages and block harmful activity before you install or update your dependencies.
Related posts
Security News
Engineering with AI Podcast: The Promise of AI-First Development
Socket CTO Ahmad Nassri shares practical AI coding techniques, tools, and team workflows, plus what still feels noisy and why shipping remains human-led.
By Sarah Gooding - Dec 24, 2025
Research
/Security News
Spearphishing Campaign Abuses npm Registry to Target U.S. and Allied Manufacturing and Healthcare Organizations
A five-month operation turned 27 npm packages into durable hosting for browser-run lures that mimic document-sharing portals and Microsoft sign-in, targeting 25 organizations across manufacturing, industrial automation, plastics, and healthcare for credential theft.
By Nicholas Anderson, Kirill Boychenko - Dec 23, 2025