React: Securing Applications

Learn how to reinforce the security of your React applications, protecting your code, data, users, servers, and more.

Introduction

• Securing React applications
• What you should know

1. Setting Up

• Initial setup
• Set up flow
• Set up ESLint

2. Overview of Security Threats

• Introduction to OWASP
• Cross-site scripting (XSS) attacks
• Cross-site request forgery (CSRF)
• Introduction to JSON Web Token (JWT) and what it solves

3. Authentication with Auth0

• Initial setup of your server
• Create your API endpoints
• Initial Auth0 setup
• Adding the files and code from Auth0
• Update index for Auth0 integration
• Add connections to server
• Finalize menu with login

4. Other React Considerations

• React considerations for security
• Strict mode

Conclusion

• Best practices update
• Next steps