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Full Stack Security Essentials: Preventing CSRF, Clickjacking, and Ensuring Content Integrity in JavaScript

Wilson Gouanet on February 23, 2025

In today’s web development landscape, security is more than a buzzword—it’s a necessity. As full stack developers, we face a wide range of threats,...

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Yangren • Feb 24

I would add to that list also reflected Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) as it's closely related to, and often used together with, the other attacks you mentioned.

Wilson Gouanet • Feb 26

Yes, definitely, thanks for your comment

Fredrik Fall • Feb 28 • Edited

Nice article! Please fix the spelling.... update: it has been fixed kudos!

Wilson Gouanet • Mar 1

Hi @fref it's now fixed

Alex P • Feb 23

Content-Security-Policy is more powerful feature than your short description, and it could help with a lot of threats

And there are much more very interesting technics ;)

just check here developer.mozilla.org/en-US/observ...

Wilson Gouanet • Feb 26

I just put a short description in order to make the article short, I can write another article to talk more about CSP, thanks for your comment @devh0us3

Manuchehr • Feb 26

csurf has been depreciated already. Have you even checked these?)

Wilson Gouanet • Mar 1

Hey @manuchehr 👋

Hey, thanks for the feedback! You’re right that csurf isn’t as actively maintained as it used to be, which is why I've looked into some alternative modules that offer similar CSRF protection functionalities.

Here are a few options:

tiny-csrf: A minimalistic CSRF protection module that's designed to be lightweight and easy to integrate.
csrf-csrf: This module provides the necessary pieces required to implement CSRF protection using the Double Submit Cookie Pattern. It's a stateless CSRF protection approach. If you’re using sessions and would prefer a stateful CSRF strategy, then you might want to consider the next option.
csrf-sync: This alternative is built for the Synchroniser Token Pattern, which is more suitable for session-based authentication, offering stateful CSRF protection.

I appreciate you pointing this out—I'll update the article to include these alternatives along with more detailed comparisons to help readers choose the best solution for their projects. Thanks again for your input!