There are many metrics to track the prevalence of open source components, such as GitHub stars and downloads, but they don’t paint the full picture of how they’re being used in production codebases.

Google this week launched its Google AJAX Libraries API, enabling developers to use the company’s global infrastructure to host and serve major JavaScript libraries. “What it is really about is being ...

The breach hit core JavaScript libraries such as chalk and strip-ansi, downloaded billions of times each week, raising alarms over the security of open-source software. Hackers have compromised widely ...