Version Details and Security Vulnerabilities

Serialize-error, a lightweight npm package by Sindre Sorhus, provides a simple yet effective way to convert JavaScript Error objects into plain, serializable JavaScript objects. This is extremely valuable when dealing with error logging, cross-process communication, or persisting error information, as standard Error objects often lose their properties during serialization (e.g., when using JSON.stringify).

Version 10.0.0 brings several improvements over the prior stable version, 9.1.1. One noticeable change is the updated dependency on type-fest, upgrading from version ^2.5.3 to ^2.12.2. This suggests enhancements in type definitions and potentially better alignment with newer TypeScript features. Developers leveraging TypeScript in their projects may benefit from this improved type safety. The bump to newer versions of xo, ava, and tsd in the devDependencies signal that the codebase is keeping up with linting, testing, and type checking best practices, which indirectly benefits users through a more reliable and maintainable library. Furthermore, version 10.0.0 introduces an increase in unpacked size (16016 bytes vs 10879 bytes) and file count (7 vs 5) likely because of a re-architecture, new features or stronger typing. Finally, the date of release of version 10 is of April 2022 while the date of release of version 9 is of March 2022, making version 10 more recent.