Secure Your Codebase: Best Practices

Developing advanced stuff is pure god mode: huge brain, galaxy-size codebase, biceps made of TypeScript

and CI pipelines. Life is good… …until you notice your GitLab access token doing a world

tour across the internet like it’s a public API. How to prevent this tragedy of the dev

commons? Easy, just stop being a menace to your own repo:

Lock it down: Update all build scripts to strictly use package-lock (no freestyle dependency

jazz, thank you). No sneaky scripts: Block postinstall scripts from running

wild and spawning surprise malware babies. Scan like a paranoid raccoon: Run security

scans in Xray so every package gets a full TSA check. Quarantine the sus stuff: Quarantine