Liran Tal

GitHub Star 🌟 · DevRel at Snyk 🥑 · Author of Essential Node.js Security · Node.js CLI Best Practices 🔥 · Docker security 🐳

Israel Joined on Mar 15, 2017 liran@lirantal.com https://www.nodejs-security.com/

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Node.js, JavaScript, OpenSource, Communities, Engineering Management, Software

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Dec 9 '19

Don't let security vulnerabilities crawl into your Node.js Docker images

#docker #scan #image #vulnerabilities

2 min read

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Mar 4

HTTP webhooks on Firebase Functions and Fastify: A Practical Case Study with Lemon Squeezy

6 min read

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Liran Tal

Jan 5

How To Get Social Media Previews Right on Astro blog with OpenGraph Meta Tags

#opengraph #social #astro

3 min read

Liran Tal

Dec 22 '23

Best Practices for Bootstrapping a Node.js Application Configuration

6 min read

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Oct 21 '23

How I Deployed Tailscale VPN to Securely Access Home Assistant Remotely

#vpn #tailscale #homeassistant #iot

4 min read

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Oct 1 '23

Environment variables and configuration anti patterns in Node.js applications

#node #config #dotenv #env

9 min read

Liran Tal

Sep 21 '23

Vue.js Patterns: Using Vue.js 3 Composition API for Reactive Parent to Child Communication

4 min read

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Aug 18 '23

How to Process Scheduled Queue Jobs in Node.js with BullMQ and Redis on Heroku

#queues #node #bullmq #redis

8 min read

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Aug 15 '23

Securing Your Node.js Apps by Analyzing Real-World Command Injection Examples

#node #security

6 min read

Liran Tal

Jun 23 '23

An Introduction to Command Injection Vulnerabilities in Node.js and JavaScript

#coding #node #javascript #security

4 min read

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Mar 13 '23

The security concerns of a JavaScript sandbox with the Node.js VM module

#applicationsecurity

5 min read

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Dec 6 '22

How to verify and secure your Mastodon account

#applicationsecurity #engineering

4 min read

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Nov 16 '22

NPM security: preventing supply chain attacks

#applicationsecurity #opensource

15 min read

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Oct 15 '22

How to add Playwright tests to your pull request CI with GitHub Actions

#engineering

11 min read

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Oct 10 '22

Choosing the best Node.js Docker image

#applicationsecurity #docker #node

11 min read

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Sep 27 '22

How to install Ruby in a macOS for local development

#applicationsecurity #ecosystems #opensource

7 min read

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Sep 19 '22

10 best practices to containerize Node.js web applications with Docker

#containers #security #docker #node

28 min read

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Sep 5 '22

The npm faker package and the unexpected demise of open source libraries

#dependencyhealth #opensource #opensourcesecurity

10 min read

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Sep 13 '22

How to build a Slack bot with Zapier and JavaScript to fetch trending topics on Reddit

#engineering

10 min read

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Sep 29 '22

A definitive guide to Ruby gems dependency management

#applicationsecurity #opensource

11 min read

Liran Tal for Snyk

Sep 29 '22

Slidev 101: Coding presentations with Markdown

#engineering

8 min read

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Dec 3 '21

Snyk Introduces Python Poetry support for securing your Python projects

#product #devtools #python #announcements

1 min read

Liran Tal

Nov 30 '21

The maintainer's CI workflows recipe for a peaceful open source life

#actionshackathon21 #github #opensource

4 min read

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Nov 19 '20

[Discuss] 10 React security best practices

#discuss #cheatsheet #react #javascript

1 min read

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Nov 17 '20

[Discuss] Enterprise security best practices for managing vulnerabilities at scale

#discuss #cheatsheet #security #enterprise

1 min read

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Mar 29 '20

AngularJS Security Fundamentals

#angular #javascript #security #web

7 min read

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Feb 19 '20

Angular vs React: security bakeoff 2019

#javascript #security #react #angular

4 min read

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Jan 29 '20

Making automatic yet informed decisions when upgrading dependencies

#javascript #dependency

3 min read

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Jan 27 '20

JavaScript frameworks security report 2019

#javascript #security #react #angular

4 min read

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Dec 22 '19

Taking a look at CFPs for NodeTLV. I'll see you there, right?

#node #conf #nodetlv #cfp

2 min read

Liran Tal

Oct 4 '19

My first time at JSConf Budapest, how was it?

#jsconf #speaking #devrel #conferences

6 min read

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Sep 6 '19

Using jq to manipulate JSON results of snyk security tests

#jq #json #security #snyk

2 min read

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Aug 19 '19

npm security tips to keep you safe of malicious modules

#npm #node #security #javascript

2 min read

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Jun 18 '19

what is your recent dev-related confession?

#discuss #webdev #beginners

1 min read

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Jun 14 '19

6 stages of refactoring a jest test case

#tests #testing #jest #javascript

2 min read

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Jun 4 '19

npm passes the 1 millionth package milestone! What can we learn?

#npm #node #javascript #opensource

1 min read

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May 20 '19

Demystifying Jest Async Testing Patterns

#jest #testing

4 min read

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May 9 '19

Are you building Docker images? here's how to avoid leaking sensitive information into Docker images

#docker #secrets #leak #image

2 min read

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May 1 '19

Why you should use COPY instead of ADD when building Docker images

#docker #build #images #devops

2 min read

Liran Tal

Apr 22 '19

How to securely build Docker images for Node.js

#docker #image #container #security

2 min read

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Apr 15 '19

How to improve your npm identity security with 2FA and Tokens

#npm #node #javascript #security

2 min read

Liran Tal

Apr 9 '19

Did you hear about the malicious backdoor discovered in the popular bootstrap-sass Ruby gem?

#ruby #security #rails #rubygems

1 min read

Liran Tal

Apr 8 '19

Top ten most popular docker images each contain at least 30 vulnerabilities

#docker #image #container #security

2 min read

Liran Tal

Apr 1 '19

Tip #5 - audit your project for vulnerabilities in your open source dependencies

#npm #node #security #javascript

2 min read

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Mar 18 '19

Assess your npm project health and call the doctor!

#npm #node #javascript #tips

2 min read

Liran Tal

Mar 11 '19

So you think you're just gonna `npm install`? Think again

#npm #node #javascript #tips

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2 min read

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Mar 5 '19

How to avoid leaking secrets to the npm registry

#npm #node #security #javascript

2 min read

Liran Tal

Jan 18 '19

Reasons to Love Jest: The Developer Experience

#jest #testing #javascript

4 min read

Liran Tal

Jan 3 '19

Reasons to Love Jest: The Test Framework

#jest #testing #javascript #testautomation

3 min read

Liran Tal

Jan 31 '18

what would you focus on when hiring engineering vp for a team of 10?

#discuss #career #leadership #culture

2 min read

Liran Tal

Oct 9 '17

The long over-due commit of Open Source

1 min read

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Sep 27 '17

git workflows - between forks, squash and rebase

#discuss #git #github #devops

1 min read

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Aug 21 '17

Securing a Node.js + RethinkDB + TLS setup on Docker containers

#node #rethinkdb #tls #docker

3 min read

Liran Tal

Mar 15 '17

Node.js Yarning for Local Packages

#yarn #npm #node

2 min read

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