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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.
Simple disappearing back-to-top button.
No external dependencies, optional ES2015 module support, no CSS imports needed.
Comes with almost no styling, allowing you to style it yourself.
Note: This library does not include smooth scrolling.
You can use scroll-behavior, but this does not yet have wide browser support. http://caniuse.com/#feat=css-scroll-behavior
body {
scroll-behavior: smooth;
}
Alternately, you can use something like https://github.com/tsuyoshiwada/sweet-scroll.
npm install back-top
ES2015:
import backTop from 'back-top';
CommonJS:
var backTop = require('back-top');
Browser Globals:
<script src="path/to/back-top.js"></script>
backTop must be manually initialized.
// Basic Usage:
backTop();
// Can pass options:
backTop({
innerHTML: 'Up you go!',
id: 'backToTop',
className: 'btn btn-secondary',
offset: '5px',
transition: {
duration: 1000,
timingFunction: 'ease',
},
});
innerHTML (String) Set the innerHTML of the button. Default is Back to Top.id (String) Set the id of the button. By default, no id is set.className (String) Set the class name (or space-separated list of class names) to apply to the button. By default, none are set.offset (String) Distance from bottom-right to absolutely position the button. Default is 1rem.transition (Object) Settings related to the CSS transition of moving the button on and off the screen.
duration (Number) Time, in milliseconds, that the transition should take. Default is 800.timingFunction (String) A valid CSS <single-transition-timing-function> string. Default is linear.Should support IE10+ and all modern browsers.
FAQs
Simple disappearing back-to-top button. No dependencies, ES2015-ready.
The npm package back-top receives a total of 48 weekly downloads. As such, back-top popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that back-top 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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