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A gulp plugin that runs the Node Security Project audit for you
###Usage Install gulp-nsp into your project.
npm install gulp-nsp --save
Then in your gulpfile, add the following task like so.
var gulpNSP = require('gulp-nsp');
//To check your package.json
gulp.task('nsp', function (cb) {
gulpNSP('./package', cb);
});
//To check your shrinkwrap.json
gulp.task('nsp', function (cb) {
gulpNSP('./npm-shrinkwrap', cb);
});
//If you don't want to stop your gulp flow if some vulnerabilities have been found:
gulp.task('nsp', function (cb) {
gulpNSP({
path: './npm-shrinkwrap.json',
stopOnError: false
}, cb);
});
####Note The string you pass to the module is the path to your package.json/npm-shrinkwrap.json relative to your gulpfile.
FAQs
A gulp module that runs Node Security check
The npm package gulp-nsp receives a total of 4,326 weekly downloads. As such, gulp-nsp popularity was classified as popular.
We found that gulp-nsp demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 5 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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