Protecting your Node.js project against supply-chain attacks (opens in new tab)

Several recent supply-chain incidents have hit widely used npm packages. The TanStack compromise, for example, affected 42 packages and 84 published versions in May 2026. A few weeks earlier, the Axios compromise published malicious axios@1.14.1 and axios@0.30.4 releases. Many malicious releases are detected and removed within hours. Delaying dependency resolution gives the ecosystem time to catch bad versions before your project installs them. It is not a complete defense, but it is a small ...