
Research
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.
Throw it a function with either done Callback style or resolve promise style.
const JobQueue = require("queuelib");
const jq = new JobQueue();
jq.enqueue((done) => {
console.log("A");
setTimeout(done, 2000);
});
jq.enqueue(() => {
return new Promise((resolve, reject) => {
console.log("B");
resolve();
});
});
jq.on("empty", ({ success, failure }) => {
console.log(`Success: ${success} Failure: ${failure}`);
});
Configure the max active concurrent jobs. Defaults to 1.
const jq = new JobQueue({ MAX_ACTIVE: 5 });
jq.enqueue(() => {
return Promise.reject("Uh oh");
});
jq.enqueue((done) => {
return done("Uh oh");
});
jq.on("failure", ({ error }) => {
console.log(JSON.stringify({ e: error, message: "caught error" }));
});
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FAQs
Straightforward asynchronous queue processor
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