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title Best Practices for Securing Node.js Applications in Production | by Semaphore | Sep, 2023 | Medium
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1 Best Practices for Securing Node.js Applications in Production
2 Why Should You Build a Secure Node.js App?
3 15 Best Practices to Make Your Node.js App More Secure
4 1. Never Run Node.js With Root Privileges
5 2. Keep Your NPM Libraries Up To Date
6 3. Avoid Using Default Cookie Names
7 4. Set the Security HTTP Headers
8 5. Implement Rate Limiting
9 6. Ensure Strong Authentication Policies
10 7. Do Not Send Unnecessary Info
11 8. Monitor Your Backend
12 9. Adopt an HTTPS-Only Policy
13 10. Validate User Input
14 11. Use Security Linters
15 12. Prevent SQL Injection
16 13. Limit Request Size
17 14. Detect Vulnerabilities Through Automated Tools
18 15. Make It Easy to Report Vulnerabilities
19 Conclusion

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2 More from Semaphore
3 Top 10 Must-Have Tools for Kubernetes Engineers
4 Site Reliability Engineering: A Comprehensive Guide
5 How to Integrate Prometheus and Grafana on Kubernetes Using Helm
6 Microservices Best Practices
7 Recommended from Medium
8 JSON is incredibly slow: Here’s What’s Faster!
9 ‘require’ vs ‘import’ in Node.js
10 Lists
11 Stories to Help You Grow as a Software Developer
12 It's never too late or early to start something
13 General Coding Knowledge
14 Modern Marketing
15 Clean Architecture in Node.js
16 Top 10 Must-Have VS Code Extensions For Everyday Use!
17 Scaling Node.js Applications for High Traffic: Best Practices
18 Node.js Power Tools: 13 Libraries Every Developer Should Know

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1 Kubernetes is an open-source platform for automating tasks, deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It offers a…
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3 In this guide, you’ll learn how to integrate Prometheus and Grafana on Kubernetes using Helm. Additionally, you’ll learn how to create a…
4 The Microservices Architecture is an evolved pattern that has fundamentally changed the way server-side code is developed and managed. This…
5 Unlocking the Need for Speed: Optimizing JSON Performance for Lightning-Fast Apps and Finding Alternatives to it!
6 One of the first concepts you’ll encounter when programming with Node.js is how to include external code modules in your project. This is…
7 Introduction
8 Unlock your coding potential with these 10 vital VS Code extensions! turbocharge your coding experience and boost productivity in no time!
9 Learn effective techniques to scale your Node.js applications for handling high traffic loads, ensuring optimal performance and availability
10 Node.js is seen as the ideal runtime environment for many web developers.

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44 Top 10 Must-Have Tools for Kubernetes EngineersKubernetes is an open-source platform for automating tasks, deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications. It offers a…
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47 Site Reliability Engineering: A Comprehensive GuidePicture this: You’re the owner of a rapidly growing, successful e-commerce platform. One day, your website crashes. Customers can’t make…
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50 How to Integrate Prometheus and Grafana on Kubernetes Using HelmIn this guide, you’ll learn how to integrate Prometheus and Grafana on Kubernetes using Helm. Additionally, you’ll learn how to create a…
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58 JSON is incredibly slow: Here’s What’s Faster!Unlocking the Need for Speed: Optimizing JSON Performance for Lightning-Fast Apps and Finding Alternatives to it!
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