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Unfortunately this isn't really doable in today's world of JavaScript development. If you want to use any of the popular frameworks you are installing a metric ton of dependency code. So not only do you have to somehow review that initial set of code, but you need to know how to spot these types of things. Then, once you complete that task, you now have to look at the diffs for each update. And there will be a lot of updates.

What you're suggesting is a great idea from a security perspective. But for typical workflows for JS development it just isn't practical.

Now, maybe this means we need different workflows and less dependencies. But it's so ingrain I don't know that it's easy to fix / change.




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