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chalk is a npm library with a maintainer paid by Tidelift

The maintainers of chalk get paid by Tidelift to ensure chalk meets standardized secure software development practices.



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Thanks to maintainers working on projects like chalk, you can use Tidelift to give your teams access to a continuously curated stream of validated data about vetted components they need to make intelligent decisions, faster.

You can feel confident bringing chalk into your application’s dependency tree because the maintainers of chalk are paid by Tidelift to ensure their open source projects follow standardized secure software development practices.

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npm chalk is a JavaScript package that makes sure terminal string styling is done right. npm chalk comes with an easy to use composable API where you just chain and nest the styles you want. You can easily design your own themes.

according to npm, chalk has more than 20 million downloads a week, and nearly 50,000 projects depend on it.

npm chalk is maintained by prolific npm maintainer Sindre Sorhus, who is working with Tidelift to offer maintenance, code improvements, and security updates, for chalk and many of the 1000+ packages he also maintains. You can learn more about how Tidelift works with chalk maintainer Sindre Sorhus in this blog post.

chalk is available via the npm package manager.

TIDELIFT ❤️ MAINTAINERS

The only source for human-validated data on secure software development practices for open source

Tidelift pays open source maintainers to ensure their projects follow industry-standard secure software development practices (like those found in the NIST Secure Software Development Framework and the OpenSSF Scorecards). We work together with our maintainer partners to provide this unique and valuable data, so you know if, when, and how your open source will be secured and maintained.
 Validated license
 2FA on source repository
 Validated versioning scheme
 2FA on package manager
 Release managers reviewed
 Documented maintenance plan
 Vulnerabilities have document review
 Validated source repository url
 Vulnerabilities have fixed release or documented mitigation available
 Discoverable security policy

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