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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Dec 2018

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781788992749

Length 642 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Android

Concepts

Web Programming

Author (1):

Federico Kereki

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Table of Contents (15) Chapters

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

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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.

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Authors (1)

Federico Kereki

Federico Kereki

Federico Kereki is a Uruguayan Systems Engineer, with a Master's degree in Education, and over 30 years of experience as a consultant, system developer, and writer. Currently a Subject Matter Expert at Globant, he has taught at Universidad de la República, Universidad ORT Uruguay, and Universidad de la Empresa. He has written articles and booklets on programming, web development, security, and open source topics for blogs, magazines, and websites. He has also written several books, including Modern JavaScript Web Development Cookbook and the upcoming Data Structures and Algorithms in JavaScript. He resides, works, and teaches in Uruguay, but he wrote the first edition of this book while working in India, and the second edition during a sojourn in Mexico.

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