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Modern JavaScript Web Development Cookbook

By : Federico Kereki
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Modern JavaScript Web Development Cookbook

By: Federico Kereki

Overview of this book

JavaScript has evolved into a language that you can use on any platform. Modern JavaScript Web Development Cookbook is a perfect blend of solutions for traditional JavaScript development and modern areas that developers have lately been exploring with JavaScript. This comprehensive guide teaches you how to work with JavaScript on servers, browsers, mobile phones and desktops. You will start by exploring the new features of ES8. You will then move on to learning the use of ES8 on servers (with Node.js), with the objective of producing services and microservices and dealing with authentication and CORS. Once you get accustomed to ES8, you will learn to apply it to browsers using frameworks, such as React and Redux, which interact through Ajax with services. You will then understand the use of a modern framework to develop the UI. In addition to this, development for mobile devices with React Native will walk you through the benefits of creating native apps, both for Android and iOS. Finally, you’ll be able to apply your new-found knowledge of server-side and client-side tools to develop applications with Electron.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)

Adding security safeguards with Helmet

Out of the box, Express is a very good tool for building your RESTful server, or to provide any other kind of service. However, unless you take some extra precautions, Express doesn't apply all security best practices, which may doom your server. Not everything is lost, in any case, because there are some packages that can help you with those practices, and Helmet (at https://helmetjs.github.io/) is one of the best for this.

Don't think of Helmet—or any other similar package, by the way—as a magic silver bullet that will somehow solve all of your possible present and future security headaches! Use it as a step in the right direction, but you must keep on top of possible menaces and security holes, and not trust any single package to manage everything.
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