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Socket researchers found several malicious npm packages typosquatting Chalk and Chokidar, targeting Node.js developers with kill switches and data theft.
To install the gulp-nsp module into your project simply run
npm install gulp-nsp --save
Then in your gulpfile, add the following task.
var gulpNSP = require('gulp-nsp');
//To check your project
gulp.task('nsp', function (cb) {
gulpNSP({package: __dirname + '/package.json'}, cb);
});
//If you're using a shrinkwrap file, pass both the shrinkwrap and the package.json
gulp.task('nsp', function (cb) {
gulpNSP({
shrinkwrap: __dirname + '/npm-shrinkwrap.json',
package: __dirname + '/package.json'
}, cb);
});
If you don't want to stop your gulp flow if some vulnerabilities have been found use the stopOnError option:
gulp.task('nsp', function (cb) {
gulpNSP({
package: __dirname + '/package.json',
stopOnError: false
}, cb);
});
If you want to use an alternative output formatter provided by nsp use the output option.
gulp.task('nsp', function (cb) {
gulpNSP({
package: __dirname + '/package.json',
output: 'summary'
}, cb);
});
If you want to use a proxy you can configure it via this option.
gulp.task('nsp', function (cb) {
gulpNSP({
package: __dirname + '/package.json',
proxy: 'http://127.0.0.1:8080'
}, cb);
});
The Node Security CLI supports adding exceptions. These are advisories that you have evaluated and personally deemed unimportant for your project. Instructions are available on the nsp cli repository.
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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