Evidence review
What to inspect before changing anything
Start with the delivered website and the real user journey. Record the current state so the team can distinguish an observed problem from an assumption and compare the same surface after deployment.
- 01Inventory direct and transitive dependencies
- 02Review advisories, maintenance and package provenance
- 03Identify packages included in production paths
Implementation
A practical improvement plan
Make the smallest coherent change that solves the observed problem. Keep normal code review, accessibility, security and product checks in the loop instead of optimizing for the scan alone.
- 01Remove unused dependencies
- 02Upgrade or mitigate reachable vulnerabilities
- 03Pin trusted versions and automate review
Verification
How to verify the result
Verification should test the intended outcome and the most likely regression. Use the production delivery path whenever headers, caching, rendering or third-party services affect the result.
- 01Rebuild from a clean lockfile
- 02Run tests after targeted upgrades
- 03Monitor new advisories and compromised releases
Common pitfall
A shortcut to avoid
Blindly applying every automated major upgrade can trade a known risk for an untested production failure.
Further reading
Primary guidance and references
These sources provide standards, security guidance or the interpretation framework used to keep this guide bounded. Product-specific implementation still requires review in the actual codebase.