chore: update NPM dependencies #685
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I've updated some of the NPM packages to resolve known security vulnerabilities in dependencies.
Since this project uses
create-react-app, not all of the dependencies are used in the production build. Many of them, especially the dependencies ofreact-scripts, are only used in the development environment or during CI builds. Vulnerabilities found in these dev dependencies are less of a threat because 99% of the time, the vulnerability cannot be exploited via the build output (html/js) that runs in the browser.Here are more detailed explanations of the situation:
facebook/create-react-app#11174
https://overreacted.io/npm-audit-broken-by-design/
To ensure that we are addressing any true security concerns, we should be sure to keep any user facing code listed in the
dependencieslist and all build-time dependencies indevDependencies. Then we can use the commandyarn audit --groups dependenciesto easily list all packages that we are using with known vulnerabilities.Here's the output of this command before the changes in this PR:
Here's the output of this command after the changes in this PR. The warnings are due to us now forcing updates to our dependency's dependencies.