Audit the npm dependencies

npm CLI offers us a npm-audit command in order to perform security audit of our project dependencies. When npm audit command is run, it scans our dependencies tree and report vulnerabilities along with their remedies if any. If you provide the fix argument then npm will try to apply the remedies.

• The audit command will exit with code 0 if no vulnerabilities are found and with non zero code if vulnerabilities are not found.

• There are two audit end points in order to fetch vulnerabilities informations:

  • Bulk Advisory: Pretty fast end point
  • Quick Audit: Slower than bulk advisory and it is only called when bulk advisory returns some error and invalid data.

• Uses:

# Scan your project for vulnerabilities and automatically install any compatible updates to vulnerable dependencies
npm audit fix

# Fix without modifying the node_modules and only updating the package-lock.json
npm audit fix --package-lock-only

# Force fix i.e. update to major sem-versions
npm audit fix --force

# Perform a dry run which generate a json output
npm audit fix --dry-run --json

# Set audit-level to moderate
npm audit --audit-level=moderate