Node Security and Best Practices
We will begin this section by describing how security is handled and implemented by Node. In this section, we will be skimming through the security practices that are required for Node applications.
Securing your Node Applications
Security has become increasingly important ever since Node became one of the leading platforms for backend application development. Security matters because, as a backend or Node.js developer, you will be exposed to handing huge amounts of sensitive data, especially in the cloud native era where most business are operating in the cloud. The following Node modules have been strictly developed to address the aforementioned points:
Helmet modules
Input validations
Regular expressions
Security.txt
Session management
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
We will begin by describing the Helmet module.
Helmet Module
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