What’s in This Book?

Attackers can break your Node.js application in many ways, and they’re always adding more tricks. But they won’t bother with new, exotic methods when the tried-and-tested techniques continue to work just as well. This book focuses on the common techniques they use and shows you how to close those avenues of attack within your application.

Chapter 1, ​Meet Your Tools​ provides a quick overview of Node.js and JavaScript. We review some of the quirks in the language and show how to prevent them from becoming security issues in your application.

Securing your application is not just about writing secure code. Of course we’ll learn how to avoid common security mistakes, but in Chapter 2, ​Set Up the Environment

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