How I built a dependency risk scanner with Coral in 7 days

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The article details the development of a dependency risk scanner using Coral within a week. It highlights the importance of monitoring dependencies to prevent supply-chain attacks, which can occur due to vulnerabilities in software packages. The author shares insights on the challenges faced during the project, including integrating multiple data sources and ensuring accurate data retrieval.

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▪The project was initiated to address the issue of developers having outdated dependencies that could lead to security vulnerabilities.
▪The scanner uses data from Google's vulnerability database, the npm registry, and the npm download API to assess package risks.
▪The author encountered challenges with data response shapes and API integration while building the scanner.

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try { if(localStorage) { let currentUser = localStorage.getItem('current_user'); if (currentUser) { currentUser = JSON.parse(currentUser); if (currentUser.id === 2600954) { document.getElementById('article-show-container').classList.add('current-user-is-article-author'); } } } } catch (e) { console.error(e); } M Rayhan Khan Posted on May 30 How I built a dependency risk scanner with Coral in 7 days — Captain's Log entry for the Pirates of the Coral-bean Hackathon. Why this project Every developer has 5-10 side projects with rotting dependencies and doesn't know it. The 2024 xz-utils backdoor was caught by accident — one engineer noticed SSH was 500 ms slower than usual. That's how close it came. Tools like Snyk and Dependabot catch known CVEs after they're published.

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