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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.
TXON, not a new serialization format, is also JSON, but the content is somewhat different from the result generated from native JSON, that makes it more expressive than the native JSON.
Uncaught TypeError: Converting circular structure to JSON.Currently supported by default:
DateNaN and ±InfinityArrayBuffer and TypedArraysnpm install txon
Please refer to the unit test codes in /test/ directory.
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Serialization library for node and browser
The npm package txon receives a total of 0 weekly downloads. As such, txon popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that txon 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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