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by johncolanduoni 160 days ago
The best tool for your median software-producing organization, who can’t just hire a team of engineers to do this, is update embargoes. You block updating packages until they’ve been on the registry for a month or whatever by default, allowing explicit exceptions if needed. It would protect you from all the major supply-chain attacks that have been caught in the wild.

> The popular Javascript React framework has 15K direct and 2K indirect dependencies - https://deps.dev/npm/react/19.2.3

You’re looking a dependents. The core React package has no dependencies.