Swig is a fast and powerful templating engine for Node.js, inspired by Django and designed to bring server-side templating capabilities to your JavaScript applications. Version 0.4.0 builds upon the solid foundation of version 0.3.0, offering refinements and potentially bug fixes. Both versions share a core set of features, including their dependency on Underscore.js for utility functions and compatibility with Express for web application development. Developers familiar with Django's templating syntax will find Swig intuitive and easy to integrate into their projects.
The key difference between these versions lies in the development dependencies. While both rely on Express and Nodeunit for testing, version 0.4.0 upgrades the Nodelint dependency to version 0.5.0, from 0.4.0 in the prior release. This update likely introduced stricter linting rules, potentially improving code quality and consistency. For developers, this means that upgrading to version 0.4.0 might require addressing new linting warnings or errors in their Swig templates or related code, ensuring adherence to the latest coding standards enforced by Nodelint. Both versions maintained by Paul Armstrong, ensure a reliable and well-maintained templating solution. Choosing between the two might depend on your project's linting requirements and desire for the most up-to-date development tools.
All the vulnerabilities related to the version 0.4.0 of the package
Arbitrary local file read vulnerability during template rendering
Directory traversal vulnerability in swig-templates thru 2.0.4 and swig thru 1.4.2, allows attackers to read arbitrary files via the include or extends tags.
