mama

@nodesecure/mama

Manifest Manager

Requirements

• Node.js v20 or higher

Getting Started

This package is available in the Node Package Repository and can be easily installed with npm or yarn.

$ npm i @nodesecure/mama
# or
$ yarn add @nodesecure/mama

Usage example

import { ManifestManager } from "@nodesecure/mama";

const mama = await ManifestManager.fromPackageJSON(
  process.cwd()
);
console.log(mama.document);
console.log(mama.integrity);

API

(static) fromPackageJSON(location: string): Promise< ManifestManager >

Load a new instance using a package.json from the filesystem.

The location parameter can either be a full path or the path to the directory where the package.json is located.

constructor(document: ManifestManagerDocument)

type ManifestManagerDocument =
  PackageJSON |
  WorkspacesPackageJSON |
  PackumentVersion;

Default values are injected if they are not present in the document. This behavior is necessary for the correct operation of certain functions, such as integrity recovery.

{
  dependencies: {},
  devDependencies: {},
  scripts: {},
  gypfile: false
}

Note

document is deep cloned (there will no longer be any reference to the object supplied as an argument)

spec

Return the NPM specification (which is the combinaison of name@version).

Caution

This property may not be available for Workspaces (if 'name' or 'version' properties are missing, it will throw an error).

integrity

Return an integrity hash (which is a string) of the following properties:

{
  name,
  version,
  dependencies,
  license: license ?? "NONE",
  scripts
}

If dependencies and scripts are missing, they are defaulted to an empty object {}

Caution

This is not available for Workspaces

author

Return the author parsed as a Contact (or null if the property is missing).

interface Contact {
  email?: string;
  url?: string;
  name: string;
}

dependencies and devDependencies

Return the (dev) dependencies as an Array (of string)

{
  "dependencies": {
    "kleur": "1.0.0"
  }
}

The above JSON will produce ["kleur"]

isWorkspace

Return true if workspaces property is present

Note

Workspace are described by the interface WorkspacesPackageJSON (from @nodesecure/npm-types)

flags

Since we've created this package for security purposes, the instance contains various flags indicating threats detected in the content:

• isNative: Contain an identified native package to build or provide N-API features like node-gyp.
• hasUnsafeScripts: Contain unsafe scripts like install, preinstall, postinstall...

import assert from "node:assert";

const mama = new ManifestManager({
  name: "hello",
  version: "1.0.0",
  scripts: {
    postinstall: "node malicious.js"
  }
});

assert.ok(mama.flags.hasUnsafeScripts);

The flags property is sealed (It is not possible to extend the list of flags)

Important

Read more about unsafe scripts here