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.

JavaScript developer destroys own projects in supply chain “lesson” – Sophos News

How to De-risk Unavailable Software Dependencies - Lessons Learned

npm Libraries 'colors' and 'faker' Sabotaged in Protest by their Maintainer— What to do Now?

GitHub - pfaciana/faker-js-extensions: This adds additional methods to faker .js to generate massive amounts of realistic fake data in Node.js and the browser

Kickstart your Kafka with Faker Data

npm Libraries 'colors' and 'faker' Sabotaged in Protest by their Maintainer— What to do Now?

Open Source — A Horror Story. What happened to Faker.js and its…, by Alex Streza

Automate data creation with Faker FAUN — Developer Community 🐾

What Actually Happened to Faker.js: Open Source Contribution Lessons - DEV Community

开源软件- The author of Faker.js deleted the library and ran away led to the shock in the open source circle: the open source project is now under the control of the

What Really happened to Faker.js?, by Shashwat Agrawal

Dev corrupts NPM libs 'colors' and 'faker' breaking thousands of apps

The story behind colors.js and faker.js

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