New top story on Hacker News: Show HN: Safe-install – safer NPM installs with trusted build dependencies

Show HN: Safe-install – safer NPM installs with trusted build dependencies
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In light of the ongoing npm supply chain compromises, I built safe-install: https://ift.tt/Kosi6g0 It brings a couple of protections I wanted from npm but are not built in. Similar to Bun’s trusted dependencies, it lets you disable install scripts by default and define a list of dependencies that are allowed to run build/install scripts: https://ift.tt/qjER87n It also supports blocking exotic sub-dependencies, similar to pnpm’s `blockExoticSubdeps` setting: https://ift.tt/itJuA3Q... I was hoping npm would eventually add something like this, but it does not seem to be happening soon, so I made a small package for it.