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lysdexic@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

Then you’ll end up with tons of vulnerabilities within days.

You only end up with vulnerabilities if you refuse to update your dependencies. Updating a dependency is something you need to do yourself, along with running build validation tests after a successful update. Just because npm can download newer packages that does not mean those packages are good.

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agressivelyPassive@feddit.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
…which is the opposite of the comment above.

So, you still have to go through all the dependencies, vulnerabilities and incompatibilities. Yes, you can now kind of control the timing, but it’s still unacceptable in my opinion, that you have to spend so much time just to not be an active danger to everyone.

NPM is completely alone in that regard. Maven, Pypi, etc. don’t have these problems.

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- lysdexic@programming.dev ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  
  So, you still have to go through all the dependencies, vulnerabilities and incompatibilities.
  
  That’s the point. There is no free lunch. Yet, you can live with stable, pinned versions and only upgrade the ones you really need to, and that means exercise your personal criteria instead of mindlessly upgrade everything just because there was a bump in a version number somewhere in an upstream dependency.
  
  Yes, you can now kind of control the timing,
  
  Timing, extent, scope, and impact. That’s the point.
  
  but it’s still unacceptable in my opinion, that you have to spend so much time just to not be an active danger to everyone.
  
  You only spend the time you decide to spend. There are already vulnerability scanners that pinpoint exactly which versions need to be updated, and do that automatically for you. Mindlessly opening the floodgate to each and every change is by definition idiocy and a liability.
  
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