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Components with known vulnerabilities

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Components with known vulnerabilities

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- [Instructor] When you're building out your application, more often than not you'll be using packages that offer you extensibility and leverage other components from these libraries. This extra help is great, but can sometimes lead you into an insecure path with your application. A great example is using a navigation or routing library with your react application, where you'd be leveraging their components to build out your routing or navigation areas with their components. This is a simple example, but could occur with any kind of packages. And I'm not saying that this particular package has problems, but what I'm saying is whenever you're leveraging other packages, you could have issues in those components. And the best way to identify these issues is when you test with Snyk or Retire js where you get a good idea of which packages are insecure. Unless you only build your own components, you need to be vigilant of the packages you use and must at all times validate you are using…

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