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MERN Quick Start Guide

You're reading from   MERN Quick Start Guide Build web applications with MongoDB, Express.js, React, and Node

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781787281080
Length 302 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Eddy Wilson Iriarte Koroliova Eddy Wilson Iriarte Koroliova
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Table of Contents (8) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Introduction to the MERN Stack 2. Building a Web server with ExpressJS FREE CHAPTER 3. Building a RESTful API 4. Real-Time Communication with Socket.IO and ExpressJS 5. Managing State with Redux 6. Building Web Applications with React 7. Other Books You May Enjoy

Securing an ExpressJS web application with Helmet

Helmet allows to protect web server applications against common attacks, such as cross-site scripting (XSS), insecure requests, and clickjacking.

Helmet is a collection of 12 middleware functions that allow you to set specific HTTP headers:

  1. Content Security Policy (CSP): This is an effective way to whitelist what kind of external resources are allowed in your web application, such as JavaScript, CSS, and images, for instance.
  2. Certificate Transparency: This is a way of providing more transparency for certificates issued for a specific domain or specific domains https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/Home/chromium-security/certificate-transparency.
  3. DNS Prefetch Control: This tells the browser if it should perform domain name resolution (DNS) on resources that are not yet loaded, such as links.
  4. Frameguard: This helps to prevent...
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