Thanks to maintainers working on projects like protocol-buffers, 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 protocol-buffers into your application’s dependency tree because the maintainers of protocol-buffers are paid by Tidelift to ensure their open source projects follow standardized secure software development practices.
Protocol Buffers are a language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible way of serializing structured data for use in communications protocols, data storage, and more, originally designed at Google (see). protobuf.js is a pure JavaScript implementation with TypeScript support fornode.js and the browser.
Protocol Buffers are available via the npm package manager.
Within days of using the Tidelift application, the Distributive team found a potential vulnerability that npm-audit hadn’t, and quickly and safely fixed those issues with Tidelift’s CLI tool.
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