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Modern JavaScript Web Development Cookbook

You're reading from   Modern JavaScript Web Development Cookbook Easy solutions to common and everyday JavaScript development problems

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788992749
Length 642 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Federico Kereki Federico Kereki
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Table of Contents (15) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Working with JavaScript Development Tools 2. Using Modern JavaScript Features FREE CHAPTER 3. Developing with Node 4. Implementing RESTful Services with Node 5. Testing and Debugging Your Server 6. Developing with React 7. Enhancing Your Application 8. Expanding Your Application 9. Debugging Your Application 10. Testing Your Application 11. Creating Mobile Apps with React Native 12. Testing and Debugging Your Mobile App 13. Creating a Desktop Application with Electron 14. Other Books You May Enjoy

Implementing secure connections

Sending data over HTTPS instead of HTTP is a good security practice, and actually mandatory if your server ever has to send sensitive, secure data over the web. There are many kinds of attacks that are avoided by setting up an encrypted connection with the client browser, so let's see how we can implement secure connections with Node and Express.

In this recipe, we will cover how to enable HTTPS so that our server becomes more secure.

How to do it...

We want to enable HTTPS connections, so we'll have to do a bit of work to install everything we need.

The first step in this installation will be getting yourself a certificate that properly validates the site that you own. Buying it...

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