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isomorphic-dompurify
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Makes it possible to use DOMPurify on server and client in the same way.
The library makes it possible to seamlessly use DOMPurify on server and client in the same way. It does nothing by itself except providing an isomorphic/universal wrapper around DOMPurify, so all credits go to DOMPurify authors and contributors.
DOMPurify - a DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG. DOMPurify works with a secure default, but offers a lot of configurability and hooks.
DOMPurify needs a DOM tree to base on, which is not available in Node by default. To work on the server side, we need a fake DOM to be created and supplied to DOMPurify. It means that DOMPurify initialization logic on the server is not the same as on the client.
This project was born with the idea of encapsulating DOMPurify initialization details and providing an easy way to import the library on both, server and client, for example in Next.js apps.
It was inspired by Isomorphic Unfetch.
| isomorphic-dompurify | Node.js | Environment |
|---|---|---|
<=0.19.0 | >=12 | Server |
>=0.20.0 | >=14 | Server |
>=1.4.0 | >=16 | Server |
>=1.10.0 | >=18 | Server |
>=2.27.0 | >=20 | Server |
>=2.30.0 | >=20.19.5 | Server |
$ npm i isomorphic-dompurify
Please note that DOMPurify library doesn't follow Semantic Versioning, so we have to release every change as a minor version because we cannot be 100% sure whether new features are added to patch DOMPurify releases or not.
Import:
import DOMPurify from "isomorphic-dompurify";
Importing the entire module for the client/browser version is recommended.
Sanitize:
const clean = DOMPurify.sanitize(dirtyString);
or with config:
const clean = DOMPurify.sanitize(dirtyString, { USE_PROFILES: { html: true } });
DOMPurify - Apache 2.0 or MPL 2.0 © 2015 Mario Heiderich
Isomorphic DOMPurify - MIT License © 2020 Konstantin Komelin and contributors
DOMPurify is the core library that isomorphic-dompurify is built upon. It provides the same sanitization capabilities but is not designed to work seamlessly in both Node.js and browser environments without additional setup.
sanitize-html is another popular library for sanitizing HTML. It offers more configuration options and flexibility compared to isomorphic-dompurify but requires more setup to work in both Node.js and browser environments.
xss is a library specifically designed to filter out XSS attacks. It provides a high level of customization and is very effective at preventing XSS, but it is not as straightforward to use in both Node.js and browser environments as isomorphic-dompurify.
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Makes it possible to use DOMPurify on server and client in the same way.
The npm package isomorphic-dompurify receives a total of 1,797,297 weekly downloads. As such, isomorphic-dompurify popularity was classified as popular.
We found that isomorphic-dompurify demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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