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Kill Switch Hidden in npm Packages Typosquatting Chalk and Chokidar
Socket researchers found several malicious npm packages typosquatting Chalk and Chokidar, targeting Node.js developers with kill switches and data theft.
Standartized fs.readfile
caching mechanism for incremental build systems.
// Your watcher
const fcache = require('fcache');
watcher.on('change', path => {
fcache.updateCache(path).then(data => {
// Do some stuff.
});
});
// Later, in your plugin
fcache.readFile(path).then(data => {
// Would use cached version.
});
fcache | Node.js |
---|---|
~0.1 | > 0.8 |
~0.2 | > 4.0 |
The MIT License (c) 2016 Paul Miller (http://paulmillr.com)
FAQs
Standartized fs.readFile caching mechanism for incremental build systems.
The npm package fcache receives a total of 2,378 weekly downloads. As such, fcache popularity was classified as popular.
We found that fcache 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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