React, Security, & Full-Stack Auth with Node and PostgreSQL

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NEWCONTENT!6/18

A couple months after the initial release, this course introduced a new section on full-stack authentication.

Why do Ineed to know about React, Security, and Full-Stack Authentication?

React, Security, and Authentication are core pillars to modern web application development.

If you are a software engineer focusing on web development, you will definitely need across React. As you continue buildingapplicationswith the framework, eventually, you will haveto allow users to sign up, and log in to your system.

Why should I care about security?

As users give you confidential information such as their passwords, you need to make sure yourapplication is built in a secure way. This is why you need to study the best security practices for React and JavaScript development. You need to make sure your components dont have any weaknessesthat could expose your users data to the many bad sailors on the seas of the Internet.

What if I only need to add authentication to my existing React application?

If your goal is to purely add authentication to your existing React application, this course will take you through adapting a React application on top of an authentication service calledauth. With this example, you will be able to add authentication to a React application whenever you need to.

Why does this course teach full-stack authentication if there are existing authentication services?

Knowing how authentication works as a whole will be vital for your career as a software engineer. At the core of any modern software project is the system that builds its users. Even if you only plan to create the frontend components that support authentication, your knowledge of how the backend works will help you design your code more efficiently. Plus, even if youre using a great authentication service like auth0, there will always come a time when your application really scales and you need more room for customization. Therefore,having full control of your own authentication backend will bemassively beneficial.

Can I start with the full-stack authentication project?

Yes, you can start with the full-stack authentication project. If youve already gone through the React and Security sections, this will definitely enhance your learning with the full-stack project. However, the full-stack project is built in a way that is not necessarily dependent on the previous course sections.

Can Ialso use the full-stack project with an existing React app?

Certainly, the backend from the full-stack project is built to support not only React, but any frontend that can make web requests.

What technologies will we use on the backend and the frontend?

Well use PostgreSQL to manage the database, and NodeJS to create the api and server. For the frontend technologies, we'll useReactJS, and a couple React frameworks.

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This course will turn you into a React and Web Security Developer and Engineer.

Since it went open-source in 2015, ReactJS has been a revolutionary framework for building web applications. But when learning React, an often overlooked but crucial step is understanding the best practices around web security.

Knowing the intersection between web security and React will elevate you in the talent people. The industry is starving for people who can not only build web applications, but do so, in a secure way.

By 2020, the International Data Corporation estimates that $101.6 billion will be spent on security. Having security in your toolbox will open the doors to incomes of $100k+.

The best way to truly understand how web security and React align is to jump right into the code. This course will provide you with the fundamental theory. But, you will dive into coding examples as soon as possible to get your hands dirty with security.

This course is designed into sections that introduce the main concepts of web security and React. Then you will dive into the concepts by writing real React code.

In addition, authentication is often a tedious process when building any React application.So this course will take you through implementing a full system of authentication in React. Thecode that you write herecanapply to any projectto add a full system of authentication (signing up, logging in, and more).

Some of the main course highlights:

• Understand various cyber attacks: XSS, CSRF, Broken Authentication, and more.

• Implement a full system of authentication in a React application.

• Build React Components with Vulnerabilities.

• Explore Cross-Site Scripting with code examples.

• Compare dangerous JavaScript methods and practices in code.

• Grasp the history of React in response to Security.

Knowing how to write React applications in a secure way will set you for success in the future, in an increasingly React-dominated world. Plus, having the ability to add authentication to any project will allow to build all kinds of applications.

So what are you waiting for? Get started coding in React,security, and full-stack authentication!