You're reading from Node.js for Beginners A comprehensive guide to building efficient, full-featured web applications with Node.js

Product type Paperback

Published in May 2024

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781803245171

Length 382 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Node.js

Concepts

Web Programming

Author (1):

Ulises Gascón

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Table of Contents (25) Chapters

Preface

1. Part 1: Node.js Overview and JavaScript Language

2. Chapter 1: Introduction to Node.js FREE CHAPTER

3. Chapter 2: Setting Up the Development Environment

4. Chapter 3: JavaScript Fundamentals

5. Chapter 4: Asynchronous Programming

6. Part 2: Node.js Ecosystem and Architecture

7. Chapter 5: Node.js Core Libraries

8. Chapter 6: External Modules and npm

9. Chapter 7: Event-Driven Architecture

10. Chapter 8: Testing in Node.js

11. Part 3: Web Application Fundamentals

12. Chapter 9: Handling HTTP and REST APIs

13. Chapter 10: Building Web Applications with Express

14. Part 4: Building Solid Web Applications with Node.js

15. Chapter 11: Building a Web Application Project from Scratch

16. Chapter 12: Data Persistence with MongoDB

17. Chapter 13: User Authentication and Authorization with Passport.js

18. Chapter 14: Error Handling in Node.js

19. Chapter 15: Securing Web Applications

20. Part 5: Mastering Node.js Deployment and Portability

21. Chapter 16: Deploying Node.js Applications

22. Chapter 17: Dockerizing a Node.js Application

23. Index

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Where to start with security

Security is a vast topic, and it will require several books to cover all the aspects; even then, it will require more resources to keep it up to date. In this section, we will explore some resources to start learning but with a limited scope to the Node.js ecosystem and web application development.

We will learn about the OWASP Top 10, CVE, and CWE so we can have a clear compass to navigate through the security world as beginners.

OWASP Top 10 overview

Many possible attacks can affect our applications and we cannot cover all of them, so the task becomes overwhelming. To prioritize the most common attacks, the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) foundation created a list of the 10 most common attacks that affect web applications, and this is updated every few years. You can find the list at https://owasp.org/www-project-top-ten.

Let’s see the list of the OWASP Top 10 for 2021: