Predeployment checklist for your web app authau...
Bro, is there anything I should double check before I launch my new website? Yeah, I have a quick checklist for you. First, authorization. When a user's logged in, can they only access their own data and nothing else? Yeah, we have this in place. Once a user's logged in, they're only able to access resources that they're authorized to access. Anything else will fail. Second, are you validating and sanitizing all user inputs? Yes, I know about SQL injection and cross-site scripting. All forms and user input are sanitized and validated before making any kind of query to our database or being executed in any capacity. Is your CORS policy configured? Yes, we have CORS set up. Only requests from our domain will be served by our API. Great, do you have rate limiting on all your API endpoints? Of course we have rate limiting. The last thing I want is an unexpected bill from one of my users sending a million requests per minute. Do your password reset links expire? Of course, password reset links expire after 30 minutes. Nice, do you catch any unexpected errors in the front end? Yep, we have different screens for different types of errors and one catch-all to make sure that the users never see a raw stack trace. Do you have indexing set up on your most common database operations? We have indexing on our most commonly queried fields, but nothing else. We don't wanna increase write overhead if we don't have to. Do you have logging so you can debug stuff in prod? We have some basic logging, but not too much. It gets expensive really quickly. Do you have alerts so you can be immediately notified if something breaks? Yes, we built alerts. I can't believe I have to go on-call for my own personal project. Are you able to roll back if a deployment goes wrong? Yeah, we're following a blue-green deployment strategy so we can quickly roll back to a prior version if needed. Nice, man, just follow me for more tips and you should be good to go.
Summary
This video outlines a predeployment checklist for web app security and performance. Key points include user authorization, input validation, CORS configuration, rate limiting, and error handling.
Key Points
- Ensure users can only access their own data after login.
- Validate and sanitize all user inputs to prevent attacks.
- Configure CORS to allow only approved origins for API access.
- Implement rate limiting to prevent excessive API requests.
- Set password reset links to expire after 30 minutes.
- Handle frontend errors with user-friendly fallback screens.
- Use database indexing on frequently queried fields.
Tags
Repurpose Ideas
- Checklist: Predeployment security measures for web apps
- Tweet: Key points for securing your web app before launch
- LinkedIn post: Essential prelaunch checklist for web developers
Save videos. Search everything.
Build your personal library of inspiration. Find any quote, hook, or idea in seconds.
Create Free Account No credit card required