🔐 10 React Security Best Practices

This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Mehul Lakhanpal

1. Use default XSS protection with data binding
2. Watch out for dangerous URLs and URL-based script injection
3. Sanitize and render HTML safely
4. Avoid direct DOM access to prevent manipulation risks
5. Secure React server-side rendering (SSR)
6. Check for known vulnerabilities in third-party dependencies
7. Avoid JSON injection attacks
8. Use non-vulnerable versions of React
9. Use strict linter configurations for security checks
10. Avoid using dangerous or unmaintained libraries

For more info, check out snyk.io/blog/10-react-security-best-practices/

This content originally appeared on DEV Community and was authored by Mehul Lakhanpal