Securing Your Node.js API Backend Services with Helmet

Securing Your Node.js API Backend Services with Helmet

In the vast expanse of web development, securing your backend services is paramount to ensure the safety and integrity of your application. For Node.js applications, one of the go-to packages for bolstering security is Helmet. Helmet helps you secure your Express apps by setting various HTTP headers. Let’s dive into how you can protect your Node.js API backend services using Helmet.

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How to do Web Scraping using NodeJS: Extract Wikipedia Data with Cheerio.

How to do Web Scraping using NodeJS: Extract Wikipedia Data with Cheerio.

Web scraping is a powerful technique for programmatically gathering data from websites. It’s particularly useful for extracting structured data from web pages, such as tables, lists, and paragraphs. In this article, we’ll explore how to scrape a table from Wikipedia using Node.js, focusing on the “Wikipedia:About” page as our example. We’ll use two popular Node.js libraries: axios for making HTTP requests and cheerio for parsing HTML and traversing the DOM.

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