NPM Supply Chain Hardening Configs Are Too Complex for Most Developers to Apply
Securing npm, pnpm, yarn, bun, and uv against supply chain attacks requires editing five separate config files in five different formats with different time units. Despite known best practices (release cooldowns, disabling install scripts), most developers skip hardening because the setup is tedious. This leaves projects exposed to dependency injection attacks that a one-command tool can prevent.
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