fastify-helmet

fastify-helmet

Important security headers for Fastify. It is a tiny wrapper around helmet.

Install

npm i fastify-helmet

Usage

Simply require this plugin, and the basic security headers will be set.

const fastify = require('fastify')()
const helmet = require('fastify-helmet')

fastify.register(
  helmet,
  // Example disables the `contentSecurityPolicy` middleware but keeps the rest.
  { contentSecurityPolicy: false }
)

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

Content-Security-Policy Nonce

fastify-helmet provide a simple way for csp nonces generation. You can enable this behavior by passing { enableCSPNonces: true } into the options. Then, you can retrieve the nonces through reply.cspNonce.

Note: This feature is implemented inside this module. It is not a valid option or supported by helmet. If you need to use helmet feature only for csp nonce you can follow the example here.

Example - Generate by options

fastify.register(
  helmet,
  // enable csp nonces generation with default content-security-policy option
  { enableCSPNonces: true }
)

fastify.register(
  helmet,
  // customize content security policy with nonce generation
  { 
    enableCSPNonces: true,
    contentSecurityPolicy: {
      directives: {
        ...
      }
    }
  }
)

fastify.get('/', function(request, reply) {
  // retrieve script nonce
  reply.cspNonce.script
  // retrieve style nonce
  reply.cspNonce.style
})

Example - Generate by helmet

fastify.register(
  helmet,
  { 
    contentSecurityPolicy: {
      directives: {
        defaultSrc: ["'self'"],
        scriptSrc: [
          function (req, res) {
            // "res" here is actually "reply.raw" in fastify
            res.scriptNonce = crypto.randomBytes(16).toString('hex')
          }
        ],
        styleSrc: [
          function (req, res) {
            // "res" here is actually "reply.raw" in fastify
            res.styleNonce = crypto.randomBytes(16).toString('hex')
          }
        ]
      }
    }
  }
)

fastify.get('/', function(request, reply) {
  // you can access the generated nonce by "reply.raw"
  reply.raw.scriptNonce
  reply.raw.styleNonce
})

How it works

fastify-helmet is just a tiny wrapper around helmet that adds an 'onRequest' hook. It accepts the same options of Helmet, and you can see more in the helmet documentation.

License

MIT