Curious to know how are you going to ensure right security patches are getting updated in-time. Most of my troubles are that I have fixed version of packages that are older than a year old. Now I am scared to update anything :)

I use calendar alerts to run `npm audit`, but the older the code is the less likely you have to worry. You can update dependencies on a similar schedule but you need a solid test suite to make sure nothing broke.

When a vulnerable package there's only a few options, best case scenario you can ignore it if it it isn't relevant to your usage, otherwise I prefer whichever is the smallest action of updating, removing, or mitigating it in place.