NPM Security Best Practices: Shielding Against Supply Chain Attacks

This article summarizes the security risks present in the NPM ecosystem, such as malware, supply chain attacks, and phishing. It provides various security best practices, including pinning dependency versions, overriding transitive dependencies, disabling lifecycle scripts, setting a minimum release age, utilizing the permission model, reducing external dependencies, enabling two-factor authentication, creating limited-access tokens, and generating provenance statements. The importance of auditing, monitoring, and security tools is stressed, along with recommendations to use private package registries and address maintainer burnout.