NPM Package

[harrislapiroff]

Love this proof of concept. Would you consider packaging it for NPM installation?

[kennysong]

Thanks! The library is designed for in-browser use rather than in Node. On the server side, there are many equivalent Python packages (e.g. CleverHans).

Happy to consider if there's a good use case though.

[harrislapiroff]

Lots of projects use npm for client-side package mangement! It's quite common to use npm with webpack to install packages from npm and process them into a client-side bundle with webpack for preprocessing. This is why there's actually lots of client-side only projects on npm, e.g., react-dom, d3 and others.

The particular use case that prompted me to want this is that Observable (an in-browser javascript notebook environment) uses a require function that pulls from jsDelivr, which ultimately pulls from npm. If this were packaged for npm, I could import it into an observable notebook like so. This code does not currently work:

advjs = require('adversarial-js')

However, I did manage to find a workaround using jsDelivr's GitHub functionality—also had to swap in import for require for compatibility with ES6-style modules. This code works:

advjs = import('https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/kennysong/adversarial.js@main/src/adversarial.js')

Let me know if you have any questions about these use cases!

[kennysong]

Ah, thanks for the explanation! For now, I created a release on GitHub so you can import a stable version from jsDelivr:

advjs = import('https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/kennysong/[email protected]/src/adversarial.js')

This should work for your in-browser use case w/ Observable, so please use it for now.

It'll take some time to properly publish the library on npm with tests, so I'll leave this issue open until then.

[harrislapiroff]

Thanks! Will use the stable release :) Much appreciated