
Research
Supply Chain Attack on Axios Pulls Malicious Dependency from npm
A supply chain attack on Axios introduced a malicious dependency, plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, published minutes earlier and absent from the project’s GitHub releases.
Minimalist asynchronous javascript flow control in 34 lines. Inspired by async library.
async.series([
function(next, err, result) {
return delay(function() {
console.log(['a', next, err, result]);
return next(err, 1);
});
}, function(next, err, result) {
return delay(function() {
console.log(['b', next, err, result]);
return next(err, 2);
});
}, function(next, err, result) {
return delay(function() {
console.log(['c', next, err, result]);
return next(err, 3);
});
}, function(next, err, result) {
console.log(['d', next, err, result]);
return next(err, 4);
}
], function(next, err, result) {
if (err) {
return console.log(['series complete with error', next, err, result]);
}
return console.log(["series complete.", next, err, result]);
});
async.parallel([
function(next) {
return delay(function() {
console.log(['e', next]);
return next();
});
}, function(next) {
return delay(function() {
console.log(['f', next]);
return next();
});
}, function(next) {
console.log(['g', next]);
return next();
}
], function(err) {
if (err) {
return console.log(['parallel complete with error', err]);
}
return console.log(["parallel complete.", err]);
});
async.whilst((function() {
console.log('my a');
return count < 5;
}), (function(cb) {
console.log('my b');
count++;
delay(cb);
}), (function(err) {
console.log('my c');
}));
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Minimalist asynchronous javascript flow control
We found that mini-async 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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