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David Herron
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David Herron is a software engineer living in Silicon Valley who has worked on projects ranging from an X.400 email server to being part of the team that launched the OpenJDK project, to Yahoo's Node.js application-hosting platform, and a solar array performance monitoring service. That took David through several companies until he grew tired of communicating primarily with machines, and developed a longing for human communication. Today, David is an independent writer of books and blog posts covering topics related to technology, programming, electric vehicles, and clean energy technologies.
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Using Helmet for across-the-board security in Express applications

While it was useful to implement HTTPS, that's not the end of implementing security measures. It's hardly the beginning of security, for that matter. The browser makers working with the standards organizations have defined several mechanisms for telling the browser what security measures to take. In this section, we will go over some of those mechanisms, and how to implement them using Helmet.

Helmet (https://www.npmjs.com/package/helmet) is, as the development team says, not a security silver bullet (do Helmet's authors think we're trying to protect against vampires?). Instead, it is a toolkit for setting various security headers and taking other protective measures in Node.js applications. It integrates with several packages that can be either used independently or through Helmet.

Using Helmet is largely a matter of importing the library into node_modules, making a few configuration settings, and...

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David Herron

David Herron is a software engineer living in Silicon Valley who has worked on projects ranging from an X.400 email server to being part of the team that launched the OpenJDK project, to Yahoo's Node.js application-hosting platform, and a solar array performance monitoring service. That took David through several companies until he grew tired of communicating primarily with machines, and developed a longing for human communication. Today, David is an independent writer of books and blog posts covering topics related to technology, programming, electric vehicles, and clean energy technologies.
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