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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.
heroku-node
Advanced tools
As of node 2, the garbage collection defaults have changed such that
1.5 GB is consumed before garbage collection will occur. This is
especially problematic on platforms such as heroku which will force your
application to start swapping well before that limit is reached. Heroku
provides $WEB_MEMORY to let you know what that limit is. This wraps node
to inform it of that limit.
npm install -S heroku-node
Use heroku-node foo or whatever your application is called for
your npm start script. If you're using a Procfile, be sure to include the
path, node_modules/.bin/heroku-node. Essentially, use heroku-node wherever
you'd use plain old node.
FAQs
run node on heroku with saner defaults for memory management.
The npm package heroku-node receives a total of 98 weekly downloads. As such, heroku-node popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that heroku-node demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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