fastify-fast-helmet

Important security headers for Fastify

Why?

You may know fastify-helmet as a helmet plugin for fastify. So why i made this plugin?

This plugin uses a set of helmet plugins for fastify instead of the helmet middlewares. You may find the reason in benchmark result and wish you like it. :)

Plugins

fastify-fast-helmet is a collection of 12 smaller middleware functions that set HTTP headers.

| Module | Option | Description | Default? | |---|---|---|---| | fastify-csp | contentSecurityPolicy | for setting Content Security Policy | | | fastify-expect-ct | expectCt | for handling Certificate Transparency | | | fastify-dns-prefetch-control | dnsPrefetchControl | controls browser DNS prefetching | ✓ | | fastify-frame-guard | frameguard | to prevent clickjacking | ✓ | | fastify-hide-powered-by | hidePoweredBy | to remove the X-Powered-By header | ✓ | | fastify-hpkp | hpkp | for HTTP Public Key Pinning | | | fastify-hsts | hsts | for HTTP Strict Transport Security | ✓ | | fastify-ie-no-open | ieNoOpen | sets X-Download-Options for IE8+ | ✓ | | fastify-no-cache | noCache | to disable client-side caching | | | fastify-no-sniff | noSniff | to keep clients from sniffing the MIME type | ✓ | | fastify-referrer-policy | referrerPolicy | to hide the Referer header | | | fastify-xss-filter | xssFilter | adds some small XSS protections | ✓ |

Difference

The sub plugins use test cases from helmet middleware and their actions are almost same as helmet middlewares but a little difference in fastify-csp.

Install

Via npm:

npm i fastify-fast-helmet

Via yarn:

yarn add fastify-fast-helmet

Usage

const fastify = require('fastify');
const fastifyHelmet = require('fastify-fast-helmet');

const app = fastify();
app.register(fastifyHelmet, {
  // Your options
});

app.listen(3000, err => {
  if (err) throw err;
});

Changelog

• 0.3.0:
  • Init version