npm Package Security — How to Find and Fix Vulnerable Dependencies in Your Node.js Application

npm package security is one of the hardest parts of modern Node.js security because the npm ecosystem is massive. The npm registry has more than 2 million packages, making it the largest software registry in the world. That scale helps developers build quickly, but it also creates security risk: abandoned packages, vulnerable transitive dependencies, typosquatting, malicious releases, and supply chain attacks can enter an application through a single install command. Most Node.js teams do not sh