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ghost-sandbox
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This module was extracted from the Ghost blogging platform project. Its sole purpose is to create a sandboxed environment for Node.js modules.
npm install ghost-sandbox
Using a whitelist
will only allow the the sandboxed module to require the listed modules.
"use strict";
const Sandbox = require('ghost-sandbox');
const sandbox = new Sandbox({
whitelist: ['when', 'lodash', ...]
});
const sandboxedModule = sandbox.loadWidget(modulePath);
Using a blacklist
will only reject the listed modules.
"use strict";
const Sandbox = require('ghost-sandbox');
const sandbox = new Sandbox({
blacklist: ['path', 'fs', ...]
});
const sandboxedModule = sandbox.loadWidget(modulePath);
Note: If you include both options, the whitelist
will supersede the blacklist
.
(MIT License)
FAQs
Sandbox for loading node modules extracted from Ghost
We found that ghost-sandbox 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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