react-native-inappbrowser-reborn: A Security Review of the In-App Browser Package
A practitioner's security look at react-native-inappbrowser-reborn: what it does, where the risk lives, and how to vet it and siblings like react-native-wifi-reborn.
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A practitioner's security look at react-native-inappbrowser-reborn: what it does, where the risk lives, and how to vet it and siblings like react-native-wifi-reborn.
The yup npm package is a mature, actively maintained schema validation library, and it is safe to use, but validation belongs on the server and yup schemas need to be written defensively. Here is the 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react-sortable-hoc is no longer actively maintained and leans on the soon-to-be-removed findDOMNode API.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.
webpack-merge cleanly combines webpack configs, but its low release cadence and function-executing merge behavior deserve a security-minded look.
@react-native-community/geolocation is the actively maintained official location module for React Native, and the biggest security question with it is privacy, not code vulnerabilities.
A security-minded look at the rimraf npm package — what it does, why old versions throw deprecation warnings, and when Node's built-in fs.rm makes it optional.
npm js-yaml is the standard YAML parser for Node.js. Its history includes real code-execution bugs, and how you call it still decides whether your app is safe.
The dotenv npm package loads environment variables from a .env file into process.env. It is safe and widely used, but how you handle the file around it is where most mistakes happen.
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