Phase 20 · Advanced Topics
TopicsSecurity (XSS, CSRF, CSP)
Part of the Frontend Developer Roadmap.
Summary
The core web security threats every frontend developer should understand — Cross-Site Scripting, Cross-Site Request Forgery, and Content Security Policy as a key mitigation.
How to Learn This
- 1Learn how XSS happens (unescaped user input rendered as HTML) and how React protects against it by default.
- 2Read how CSRF tokens prevent forged requests from other sites.
- 3Add a basic Content-Security-Policy header to a project and see what it blocks.
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