@nodesecure/scanner/dist/class/TopPackages.class.js

A package API to run a static analysis of your module's dependencies.

// Import Node.js Dependencies
import path from "node:path";
import fs from "node:fs/promises";
// Import Third-party Dependencies
import { distance } from "fastest-levenshtein";
/**
 * This implementation take inspiration from npq
 * @see https://github.com/lirantal/npq/blob/c11e5425707ae992fcd6fb0878abe01ccd77399b/lib/marshalls/typosquatting.marshall.js#L23
 */
export class TopPackages {
    #packages = [];
    async loadJSON() {
        const rawPackageStr = await fs.readFile(path.join(import.meta.dirname, "..", "data", "top-packages.json"), "utf-8");
        this.#packages = JSON.parse(rawPackageStr);
    }
    getSimilarPackages(packageName) {
        const similarPackages = [];
        for (const popularPackageNameInRepository of this.#packages) {
            // If the package to be installed is itself found within the Top Packages dataset
            // then we don't report on it
            if (packageName === popularPackageNameInRepository) {
                return [];
            }
            const levenshteinDistance = distance(packageName, popularPackageNameInRepository);
            if (levenshteinDistance > 0 && levenshteinDistance < 3) {
                similarPackages.push(popularPackageNameInRepository);
            }
        }
        return [...new Set(similarPackages)];
    }
}
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