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Are node apps getting way more hacked than say php or java servers? Was his code any better?
by kabes 5y ago
Are node apps getting way more hacked than say php or java servers? Was his code any better?
- Thorrez 5y agoThere are frequently posts on HN about NPM packages getting compromised. Of the top 10 posts on HN about NPM in the past 30 days[1], 9 are about security problems, and last 1 is about package spam. [1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=false&query=npm&sort=byPopularity&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=pastMonth&page=0&prefix=fa...
- danielheath 5y agoNode apps tend to depend on a far, far wider pool of maintainers. To illustrate: A new Ruby on Rails app has 1/10th the number of maintainers in its dependency list than a new create-react-app codebase.
- dragonwriter 5y agoA create-react-app app is not a node app (It has a node dev server, but it's a front-end JS app), so its a weird thing to reach for to illustrate a point about node apps.