Show HN: Safe-install – safer NPM installs with trusted build dependencies

2 points by gkiely 3 minutes ago

In light of the ongoing npm supply chain compromises, I built safe-install:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/@gkiely/safe-install

It brings a couple of protections I wanted from npm but are not built in.

Similar to Bun’s trusted dependencies, it lets you disable install scripts by default and define a list of dependencies that are allowed to run build/install scripts:

https://bun.com/docs/guides/install/trusted

It also supports blocking exotic sub-dependencies, similar to pnpm’s `blockExoticSubdeps` setting:

https://gajus.com/blog/3-pnpm-settings-to-protect-yourself-f...

I was hoping npm would eventually add something like this, but it does not seem to be happening soon, so I made a small package for it.