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Recent Trends in Malicious Packages Targeting Discord
The Socket research team breaks down a sampling of malicious packages that download and execute files, among other suspicious behaviors, targeting the popular Discord platform.
log-update
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Log by overwriting the previous output in the terminal.
Useful for rendering progress bars, animations, etc.
npm install log-update
import logUpdate from 'log-update';
const frames = ['-', '\\', '|', '/'];
let index = 0;
setInterval(() => {
const frame = frames[index = ++index % frames.length];
logUpdate(
`
♥♥
${frame} unicorns ${frame}
♥♥
`
);
}, 80);
Log to stdout.
Clear the logged output.
Persist the logged output.
Useful if you want to start a new log session below the current one.
Log to stderr.
Get a logUpdate
method that logs to the specified stream.
Type: object
Type: boolean
Default: false
Show the cursor. This can be useful when a CLI accepts input from a user.
import logUpdate from 'log-update';
// Write output but don't hide the cursor
const log = logUpdate.create(process.stdout, {
showCursor: true
});
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Log by overwriting the previous output in the terminal. Useful for rendering progress bars, animations, etc.
The npm package log-update receives a total of 9,350,777 weekly downloads. As such, log-update popularity was classified as popular.
We found that log-update demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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