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Building Web Apps with Spring 5 and Angular

Building Web Apps with Spring 5 and Angular

By : Shukla
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Building Web Apps with Spring 5 and Angular

Building Web Apps with Spring 5 and Angular

2.1 (8)
By: Shukla

Overview of this book

Spring is the most popular application development framework being adopted by millions of developers around the world to create high performing, easily testable, reusable code. Its lightweight nature and extensibility helps you write robust and highly-scalable server-side web applications. Coupled with the power and efficiency of Angular, creating web applications has never been easier. If you want build end-to-end modern web application using Spring and Angular, then this book is for you. The book directly heads to show you how to create the backend with Spring, showing you how to configure the Spring MVC and handle Web requests. It will take you through the key aspects such as building REST API endpoints, using Hibernate, working with Junit 5 etc. Once you have secured and tested the backend, we will go ahead and start working on the front end with Angular. You will learn about fundamentals of Angular and Typescript and create an SPA using components, routing etc. Finally, you will see how to integrate both the applications with REST protocol and deploy the application using tools such as Jenkins and Docker.
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Securing an app from XSS


As discussed in one of the earlier sections, XSS attacks happen when attackers are able to inject malicious code (JavaScript) into the HTTP request/response or store them in database. Thereby, updating the DOM tree as the malicious code gets executed as part of page getting loaded. Execution of malicious code may result in scenarios such as users' data getting stolen or session being hijacked, and so on. In order to prevent XSS attacks, the key is to prevent attackers from injecting malicious code into the DOM tree. The following is an Angular security model for preventing XSS attacks:

  • By default, Angular sanitizes all data: All values are treated as unsafe by Angular. That essentially means that all values before getting updated to DOM tree are sanitized and escaped appropriately.
  • Avoid dynamic generation of template code: Template code such as HTML, attributes, and binding expressions are considered to be trusted data by Angular. Thus, as a recommended practice,...

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