Tag Archives: npm
Stealing Usernames, Passwords, and other (Personal) Data via Browsers and NPM Packages
👋 This post also got published on Medium. If you like it, please give it some love a clap over there. Late 2016, Stoyan Stefanov published “Oversharing with the browser’s autofill”. It’s an article on stealing personal data using the … Continue reading
TIP: Enable Two Factor Authentication (2FA) with your NPM account
Since early October it’s possible to enable Two Factor Authentication with your NPM account. 2FA is another layer of defense for your account, preventing third parties from altering your code even if they steal or guess your credentials. This is … Continue reading
Introducing npx: an NPM package runner
Included with npm@5.2.0 is an extra binary named npx: npx is a tool intended to help round out the experience of using packages from the NPM registry — the same way npm makes it super easy to install and manage dependencies hosted … Continue reading
npm v5.0.0
This release marks months of hard work for the young, scrappy, and hungry CLI team, and includes some changes we’ve been hoping to do for literally years. npm@5 takes npm a pretty big step forward, significantly improving its performance in … Continue reading
Faking node_modules in CodePen Projects
With CodePen Projects you have a web IDE right in your browser, with preprocessing built-in. But what about installing dependencies via the npm ecosystem? With some minimal effort it’s possible: All you need to do is make a folder called … Continue reading
Why I’m excited about Yarn
Today, Facebook – in collaboration with Google and others – released Yarn, a new package manager for JavaScript. Introducing Yarn: a new package manager for JavaScript from @fbOpenSource, @tildeio, @googledevs & @exponentjs. https://t.co/2LfN5OXjOv — Yarn (@yarnpkg) October 11, 2016 In … Continue reading
Update package.json dependencies with npm-check-updates
npm-check-updates is a command-line tool that allows you to upgrade your package.json or bower.json dependencies to the latest versions, regardless of existing version constraints. npm-check-updates maintains your existing semantic versioning policies Install it using npm install -g npm-check-updates Then run … Continue reading
Get screenshots of websites in different resolutions with pageres
$ pageres bram.us 1366×768 1600×900 ✔ Successfully generated 2 screenshots from 1 url and 2 resolutions Install it using npm: $ npm install –global pageres pageres →
Batch install dependencies in all subfolder-organised projects
As a lecturer ICT I have to correct the work our students make. Therefor I collect all solutions and put them in a subfolder-organised structure on disk: per student I create a subfolder and put their solution into that folder(*). … Continue reading
QR Code Terminal
qrcode-terminal is a tiny npm module that allows you to encode text as a QR code and render it to a UNIX-compatible terminal. // render QR code to the console qrcode.generate(‘http://michaelbrooks.ca’); // return QR code as a string qrcode.generate(‘http://michaelbrooks.ca’, function … Continue reading