Security Best Practices for Your Node.js Application

Node.js applications are common targets for attacks, including XSS, DoS, and brute force. This guide outlines common security threats and provides best practices to mitigate them. Techniques include using parameterized queries, sanitizing inputs, employing ORMs, implementing rate limiting, and using multi-factor authentication. The importance of using secure headers, securing dependencies, and monitoring/logging activities is also highlighted, along with practical code examples.