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dash-design-kit is a part of Dash Enterprise, Plotly's end-to-end Dash application platform. This public copy of the package is a stub published on pypi.org designed to shield Dash Enterprise users from dependency confusion, a remote code execution attack publicly disclosed in 2021 by Alex Birsan.
If you are a Dash Enterprise user, you will only see this public package if your app is not properly configured to find the local package repository built into Dash Enterprise. Visit the docs for your Dash Enterprise installation for details.
If you never see this public package, it's still doing its job of protecting you from the dependency confusion attack!
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A Public stub for dash-design-kit by Plotly
We found that dash-design-kit demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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