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"Why I stopped trusting npm audit (and built my own)"

DEV Community·neve7r·6 months ago
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Generate a CycloneDX SBOM and deterministic, audit-ready risk report from your package-lock.json.

You run npm audit. It says “47 vulnerabilities.”

Cool.

Which ones actually matter?

The one in your production bundle?

The dev-only Jest dependency?

The transitive package you didn’t even know existed?

You don’t know.

So you either:

Ignore everything → ship anyway

Or block everything → break your team

Either way, you lose signal.

The real problem isn’t vulnerabilities — it’s decision-making

Most tools answer:

“What is wrong?”

They don’t answer:

“What should I do about it?”

“Can I prove that decision later?”

That last one is the real problem.

Enter: audit-ready

Instead of scores, it gives you decisions.

Deterministic. Reproducible.…

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