UNIX Symbolic Link (Symlink) Following
@npmcli/arborist, the library that calculates dependency trees and manages the node_modules folder hierarchy for the npm command line interface, aims to guarantee that package dependency contracts will be met, and the extraction of package contents will always be performed into the expected folder. This is accomplished by extracting package contents into a project's node_modules folder. If the node_modules folder of the root project or any of its dependencies is somehow …