I’m following the odin project to learn web development. I had read about malicious packages in npm multiple times, so I avoided it until now. I’m on the webpack lesson now, and to use webpack, I need to install it using npm. I also see that it has many dependencies, and those dependencies will have other depenedencies and so on.
Why is it like this? Is there any other tool like webpack that doesn’t require npm? Or rather, can someone clarify how to properly use npm or link a guide that explains it? I have this kind of fear and reluctance about using npm after all the things I read.
Can you provide a guide for how to use containers for that? I’m not familiar with them so I have no idea how to do that.
You could find out about the way we do it at https://github.com/madnificent/docker-ember but I would not if I were you.
The real risk, today at least, does not seem utterly huge. Jumping in this rabbit hole of containers is another topic in itself. I suggest continuing your learning as you do now and maybe revisit this later. You will learn faster that way.
Feel free to check what we did on the link above and ask questions later or whenever you feel ready for this topic.