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Safeguard articles tagged "react" — guides, analysis, and best practices for software supply chain and application security.
38 articles
react-loader-spinner: A Security Guide
react-loader-spinner adds ready-made loading spinners to React apps. It is UI-only, so its security story is entirely about dependency hygiene and install-time provenance.
react-helmet-async: Is It Safe to Depend On in 2025?
react-helmet-async manages document head tags in React apps, but its maintenance history is bumpy. Here is what the package does, where the risk sits, and how to depend on it safely.
React Fast Marquee: A Security and Maintenance Guide
React Fast Marquee is a lightweight scrolling-marquee component for React. Here is an honest look at its risk profile, maintenance status, and how to use it safely.
npm classnames: Security Review and Safe Usage
The npm classnames package is a tiny, widely used utility for conditionally joining CSS class names. Here is its security profile and how to use it safely in React.
prop-types npm: Security Review and Safe Usage
The prop-types npm package is a runtime type checker React split out years ago. React 19 stopped honoring propTypes internally, which changes when and why you should still depend on it.
react-grid-layout: Package Health and Production Considerations
A production-focused review of the react-grid-layout npm package: what it does well, its maintenance profile, performance traps, and how to depend on it responsibly.
prism-react-renderer: Safe Syntax Highlighting in React
prism-react-renderer gives you tokenized syntax highlighting in React without dangerouslySetInnerHTML. Here is how it works, why that matters for XSS, and how to keep the dependency healthy.
react-sortable-hoc: Security and Maintenance Status Review
react-sortable-hoc is no longer actively maintained and leans on the soon-to-be-removed findDOMNode API. Here's what that means for your risk and what to migrate to.
Is html-react-parser Safe? Rendering HTML in React Without an XSS Hole
html-react-parser converts an HTML string into React elements, but it is not a sanitizer. Here is how to use it and where the XSS risk really sits.
npm react-scripts: A Security Review and Safe Usage Guide
react-scripts powers Create React App, but CRA is now deprecated and react-scripts carries a stack of aging transitive dependencies. Here is how to handle it safely.
react-signature-canvas: A Security and Maintenance Review
A security review of react-signature-canvas: what the component does, its inactive maintenance status, the XSS surface to watch, and how to use it safely.
react-query (TanStack Query): Package Health and Data-Fetching Safety
The npm react-query package froze at v3.39.3 when the project moved to @tanstack/react-query. Here is how to tell which one you are running, and how to keep server-state caching from leaking data.
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