Introducing Package Firewall, blocking over 8,000 vulnerable packages per day (opens in new tab)

Replit already scans your projects for vulnerable dependencies, and audits your dependencies before you publish. But risk shows up earlier than that, while you are developing, the moment a malicious package gets installed. Today we're launching Package Firewall, in partnership with Socket (a software supply-chain security company) . Package Firewall blocks malicious and compromised packages from ever being installed into your app, even while you are building. This network-level security prote...