Microsoft has identified an active supply chain attack targeting the @antv node package manager (npm) package ecosystem. A threat actor compromised an @antv maintainer account and published malicious ...

Today, I relearned about JavaScript IIFEs and scope. IIFE stands for Immediately Invoked Function Expression, which is a way of writing a function so that it executes only once right at the moment it ...

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a set of seven npm packages published by a single threat actor that leverages a cloaking service called Adspect to differentiate between real victims and ...

Seven packages published on the Node Package Manager (npm) registry use the Adspect cloud-based service to separate researchers from potential victims and lead them to malicious locations. The purpose ...

Verifalia provides a fast and accurate API for verifying email addresses in real-time and checking whether they are deliverable, invalid, or otherwise risky: this SDK library integrates with Verifalia ...

Sometimes you need a small snippet of code to run in a specific place at at a specific time during a page's loading process to achieve a specific effect or prevent the dreaded FOUC. Running scripts as ...

In React, Immediately Invoked Function Expressions (IIFE) are not commonly used in the same way as they were in traditional JavaScript development. React introduces a different paradigm for building ...

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JavaScript based technologies got a lot of attention from the market and from the community in the last couple of years. Movement which brought a lot of improvements and gave birth to countless ...