Interesting middlewares in Node.js and Express.js API for security

Hi, Devs!

Look at this piece of code into the main app.js and its middlewares:

const express = require('express');
const app = express();
const cors = require('cors')
const helmet = require("helmet");
const morgan = require("morgan")
const rateLimit = require("express-rate-limit")

const limiter = rateLimit({
    windowMs: 60 * 1000, // 1 minute
    max: 50, // limit each IP to 50 requests per windowMs
    message: "Too many accounts created from this IP, please try again after a minute"
});

app.use(morgan("common")) //just for logs
app.use(helmet());
app.use(cors());
app.use(limiter)
app.use(express.json());
app.get("/", (res, req) => {
    res.status(200).send("Security into a Node.js API")
})

First tip: Use TLS
It's necessary to create a security's and would be the middle between the connection and the data. One is the free TLS certificate from Let’s Encrypt.

☠️ helmet
"Helmet can help protect your app from some well-known web vulnerabilities by setting HTTP headers appropriately." [Docs]

☠️ cors
"CORS is a node.js package for providing a Connect/Express middleware that can be used to enable CORS with various options."
[Docs]

☠️ express-rate-limit
"Use to limit repeated requests to public APIs and/or endpoints such as password reset" [Docs]

That's simple and helps a lot! Code it!

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