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Kill Switch Hidden in npm Packages Typosquatting Chalk and Chokidar
Socket researchers found several malicious npm packages typosquatting Chalk and Chokidar, targeting Node.js developers with kill switches and data theft.
react-git-info
Advanced tools
Get git commit information in your React Application as a JavaScript object. No configuration necessary if you use create-react-app.
You need to install this repository as an NPM devDependency
:
npm install --save-dev react-git-info
After that you can import the information to your static React files.
import GitInfo from 'react-git-info/macro';
const gitInfo = GitInfo();
console.log(gitInfo.branch);
console.log(gitInfo.commit.date);
console.log(gitInfo.commit.hash);
console.log(gitInfo.commit.message);
console.log(gitInfo.commit.shortHash);
This package uses a babel-plugin-macros
macro that is preconfigured when
you're using a recent version of create-react-app
.
FAQs
Git commit information for your react app
The npm package react-git-info receives a total of 1,915 weekly downloads. As such, react-git-info popularity was classified as popular.
We found that react-git-info 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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