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Supply Chain Attack on Axios Pulls Malicious Dependency from npm
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Configuration loader.
npm install -SE cnf
To use it simply require it:
var config = require('cnf');
console.log('port: ' + config.http.port);
It will look for a configuration file called /config/$APP_ENV.js in the current working directory and will be extended with config from global.js.
To override configs use a command line argument prefixed with app.
node example.js --app.http.port 8080
The above line override http.port with 8080
To refer to another part of the config use
{
port: 8080,
siteUrl: "http://localhost:$(port)" //this will be "http://localhost:8080"
}
Add a regexp using
--app.mySetting "$regexp(/myRegExp/gmi)"
FAQs
Configuration loader
The npm package cnf receives a total of 350 weekly downloads. As such, cnf popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that cnf demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 9 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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