npm package
Homeshimmer
Shimmer is a library for safe monkeypatching in JavaScript, allowing developers to wrap methods with custom behavior. It is useful when you need to modify the behavior of existing functions without replacing them outright. This fits into applications that require dynamic behavior modification of existing modules.
- lurq health score
- 39/100
- Confidence
- unproven
- Weekly downloads
- 15,756,113
- Latest version
- 1.2.1
- Last release
- Jan 17, 2019
- License
- BSD-2-Clause
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lurq's verdict: low
- No known advisories
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