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Making "safe npm" (JS Party #272)

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Sockets API and NPM: The Benefits

The analysis isn't happening locally on your machine. So when we do an analysis of a package, it's done on our servers and that way we can cache the results for everybody. By default, there is no ability from NPM to prompt and tell you you're about to install something. We had to like put down an inter-process communication server and synchronize terminals. This isn't too uncommon in things like VS code do it, but it was just something that we weren't expecting to do.

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