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A Blueprint for Production-Ready Web Applications

You're reading from   A Blueprint for Production-Ready Web Applications Leverage industry best practices to create complete web apps with Python, TypeScript, and AWS

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2022
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781803248509
Length 284 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Philip Jones Philip Jones
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Table of Contents (13) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1 Setting Up Our System
2. Chapter 1: Setting Up Our System for Development FREE CHAPTER 3. Part 2 Building a To-Do App
4. Chapter 2: Creating a Reusable Backend with Quart 5. Chapter 3: Building the API 6. Chapter 4: Creating a Reusable Frontend with React 7. Chapter 5: Building the Single-Page App 8. Part 3 Releasing a Production-Ready App
9. Chapter 6: Deploying and Monitoring Your Application 10. Chapter 7: Securing and Packaging the App 11. Index 12. Other Books You May Enjoy

Updating packages

A very common source of vulnerabilities in web applications is vulnerable dependent packages. This is especially true if the application is using an older version of a package when a new, more secure version is available. To mitigate against this, we can periodically check for known vulnerabilities and, crucially, update the packages as often as possible.

Importance of lockfiles

By using npm and PDM, we are using lockfiles; this means that we’ll always install the same package version on any system until we change the lockfile. Without a lockfile, we would quickly be in a position where different systems run with different package versions and potentially different packages. This would make it hard to diagnose bugs, as it may depend on a version we aren’t testing. Crucially though, it would make our app less secure as we would have no control over what was installed.

Periodically checking for vulnerabilities

In our app, we are using many...

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