What happened to Faker.js and how to secure your projects

The golden rule when installing external javascript modules is that we should prefer popular packages that are frequently updated. The Faker.js library has met all this, and tens of thousands of developers have used it to generate random data such as people's names or company names as a useful tool, during development or tests.

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Developer sabotages open source modules colors.js and faker.js in NPM, affecting thousands of projects – Born's Tech and Windows World

swyx on X: News: Marak adds an infinite loop to break the `colors` package, to protest lack of open-source funding. This follows the faker.js issue. The message is marred by troll behavior

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Faker.js' which caused damage all over the world by the author's own destruction changed to a community-led project - GIGAZINE