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Supply Chain Attack on Axios Pulls Malicious Dependency from npm
A supply chain attack on Axios introduced a malicious dependency, plain-crypto-js@4.2.1, published minutes earlier and absent from the project’s GitHub releases.
@types/markdown-it
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TypeScript definitions for markdown-it
npm install --save @types/markdown-it
This package contains type definitions for markdown-it (https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it).
Files were exported from https://github.com/DefinitelyTyped/DefinitelyTyped/tree/master/types/markdown-it.
These definitions were written by York Yao, Robert Coie, duduluu, and Piotr Błażejewicz.
Remark is an ecosystem of plugins for processing Markdown with JavaScript. It is highly extensible, similar to markdown-it with its plugin system, but built on the unified collective, making it part of a larger ecosystem for processing text.
Showdown is a JavaScript Markdown to HTML converter, similar to markdown-it in its basic functionality. It emphasizes extensibility and customization through options and extensions, though it might not offer as rich a plugin ecosystem as markdown-it.
Marked is a fast Markdown parser and compiler written in JavaScript. It is designed to be as compatible as possible with the original Markdown spec. Compared to markdown-it, marked focuses on speed and compliance with the original Markdown design, potentially offering less extensibility in terms of plugins.
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TypeScript definitions for markdown-it
The npm package @types/markdown-it receives a total of 8,933,780 weekly downloads. As such, @types/markdown-it popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @types/markdown-it demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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