Security

GitHub Rolling Out Enforced 2FA and More for npm Registry — Many public code package registries have suffered issues with user security in recent years, and a single compromised package can cause havoc in the npm ecosystem in particular. GitHub are, therefore, moving forward with plans for ‘enhanced login verification’ including enforced 2FA for publishers of high impact packages in early 2022. If you want to check your npm account and improve its security, now is the time!

Myles Borins

Why You Should Check-In Your Node Dependencies — “I currently work at Google on the Chrome DevTools team and we check our node_modules folder into source control. At first this struck me as unusual, but I’ve come to believe that there are some major benefits to this approach that I think more people should consider.”

Jack Franklin

The DevSecGuide to Infrastructure as Code — Learn research on the state of IaC security, practical steps for building a DevSecOps culture, and tips for embedding automated security throughout the DevOps lifecycle. Download the guide for free.

Bridgecrew

On Node.js Memory Limits: What You Should Know — Node.js is pretty efficient in terms of its memory use so you might never run into its limits, but it’s worth understanding how Node’s memory management works and how to handle limits and things like memory leaks before they crop up in your app.

Camilo Reyes

Fighting TLS Fingerprinting with Node — For a whole variety of reasons, some sinister, many commercial, a lot of online services want to track people and their use of the Web – fingerprinting is one way to do this, and the way TLS requests are made can add to this, as demonstrated here.

Tim Perry