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Meteor Cookbook

You're reading from   Meteor Cookbook Build elegant full-stack web applications with Meteor, the JavaScript framework that's redefining web development

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783280292
Length 364 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Optimizing Your Workflow 2. Customizing with Packages FREE CHAPTER 3. Building Great User Interfaces 4. Creating Models 5. Implementing DDP 6. Mastering Reactivity 7. Using Client Methods 8. Integrating Third-party Libraries 9. Securing Your Application 10. Working with Accounts 11. Leveraging Advanced Features 12. Creating Useful Projects Index

Protecting the client with browser-policy

Securing your database is pretty straightforward in Meteor, but what about client-side security? Meteor has you covered there as well, using standard Content-Security-Policy and X-Frame-Options safeguards. This recipe will walk you through adding the browser-policy package, and configuring basic client-side security.

Getting ready

We will create a brand new project as usual, but we will be keeping the default files, creating some unsafe scripting functionality along the way.

Scaffolding setup

In a terminal window, navigate to where your project root will be, and execute the following commands:

$ meteor create secure-client
$ cd secure-client
$ mkdir {client,server,both}
$ mv secure-client.* client/
$ meteor

Add CDN-hosted bootstrap

Visit the official Bootstrap Getting Started page, located at http://getbootstrap.com/getting-started/ and scroll to the section marked as Bootstrap CDN. Copy the contents from that section, and insert them into the <head...

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