5/12/2026 at 12:30:10 AM
by gkiely
5/12/2026 at 6:35:58 PM
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.
by jaen
5/12/2026 at 9:21:25 PM
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.
by gkiely
5/12/2026 at 6:06:47 AM
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.
by pjmlp
5/12/2026 at 9:10:01 PM
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.
by gkiely
5/12/2026 at 3:45:12 AM
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
by edoceo