Closed ssk101 closed 3 years ago
@goto-bus-stop is there anything I can help with to move this forward?
The travis-ci will never pass, because the project tests 5 old versions of nodejs, but fsevents 2.x used by chokidar 3.x only supports nodejs 8+: https://www.npmjs.com/package/fsevents
We have had to skip testing watchify on MacOS in the node.js smoke test suite CITGM due to failures related to this old dependency
Now first security warnings arrived for dependencies of the old chockidar 2.1.x version. Now this update may get a bit more priority i hope...
Watchify depends on chokidar
2.1.x (2.1.8 as latest) which depends (in the end) on old cache-base@1.0.1
Older cache-base releases have a prototype pollution problem, fixed with later cache-base 4.x releases... Currently no update available as chokidar 2.1 is not supported anymore. The update to latest chokidar@3.4.4
will fix these security warning.
watchify@3.11.1 > chokidar@2.1.8 > braces@2.3.2 > snapdragon@0.8.2 > base@0.11.2 > cache-base@1.0.1
And - another positive side effect: using chockidar 3.x instead of 2.1 dramatically reduces dependency count (see https://paulmillr.com/posts/chokidar-3-save-32tb-of-traffic/)
Security warning: https://snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-JS-CACHEBASE-1054631
Addon - anymatch
should be updated to latest 3.x too as chokidar depends on anymatch 3.1 and not 2.x anymore to not pull duplicate dependencies and (more important) old anymatch@2.x
fetches vulnerable cache-base too
merged in https://github.com/browserify/watchify/pull/378 and released as 4.x. Thanks for the PR!
Older versions of Chokidar have a few issues watching large amounts of files (as in no events are triggered on file changes after a while).