3 comments

  • jaen 15 hours ago
    but... why not just use pnpm? It's generally a straightforward migration.

    It has dependency cooldowns, build scripts disabled by default, and the setting you mentioned.

    • gkiely 12 hours ago
      The simplest reason might be that it's not the default so people use npm out of habit.

      Personally, I use volta and switch between node versions in different projects, so I prefer to just use npm.

    • pjmlp 1 day ago
      The solution already exists.

      Nexus, Artifactory, and many others.

      Security minded organisations don't allow cowboy installs into projects, the systems are configured to use internal repos and only IT validated packages got uploaded into them.

      Still it might be of value to single devs.

      • gkiely 12 hours ago
        Yeah, this is just for anyone using node on their local machine.

        Enabling `ignore-scripts=true` protects you from almost all of the recent compromises `min-release-age=3` protects you from the rest. But you still typically need trusted dependency builds, which this script solves.

        I hope that npm enables this by default in the future.

      • edoceo 1 day ago
        Yet again I'm asking folk to look at this artifact mirror that was Show HN a few months ago.

        https://github.com/artifact-keeper

        It's currently my favourite package gate keeper - after a few years of self-built jank