
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.
waterslide
Advanced tools
Waterslide is a CLI tool that easily sets up a modern JavaScript project and takes care of troublesome compilation (webpack, babel...).
$ npm install -g waterslide
$ ws config
ws config is default setting configuration tool.
$ ws new <target> [projectDir]
target is the environment name you want to create like electron, node, browser.
If you omit projectDir specification, created a project directory with random name. Even if you do not consider the name of the project, you can easily create a project and experiment.
$ cd projectDir
$ npm start
npm start is run projectnpm run build is build projectnpm test is test projectFor example, create React-Redux eletcron project with ava, eslint:
$ ws new --use react-redux,ava,eslint electron [projectDir]
$ cd <projectDir>
$ npm start
Build distribution pacakge of the Electron application:
$ npm run build
The license of the waterslide itself is Apache-2.0. Software license created using waterslide can be set freely.
FAQs
Waterslide is easy setting method for JavaScript.
We found that waterslide 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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