koa-helmet

koa-helmet

koa-helmet is a wrapper for helmet to work with koa (v2 and v3). It provides important security headers to make your app more secure by default.

This package has zero direct dependencies, with peerDependencies of koa and helmet.

Installation

npm i koa-helmet helmet

# or:

yarn add koa-helmet helmet

Usage

Usage is the same as helmet

Helmet offers 11 security middleware functions:

// This...
app.use(helmet());

// ...is equivalent to this:
app.use(helmet.contentSecurityPolicy());
app.use(helmet.dnsPrefetchControl());
app.use(helmet.expectCt());
app.use(helmet.frameguard());
app.use(helmet.hidePoweredBy());
app.use(helmet.hsts());
app.use(helmet.ieNoOpen());
app.use(helmet.noSniff());
app.use(helmet.permittedCrossDomainPolicies());
app.use(helmet.referrerPolicy());
app.use(helmet.xssFilter());

You can see more in the documentation.

Example

import Koa from "koa";
import helmet from "koa-helmet";

const app = new Koa();

app.use(helmet());

app.use((ctx) => {
  ctx.body = "Hello World";
});

app.listen(4000);

Testing

To run the tests, simply run

npm test

Versioning

• koa-helmet >=2.x (main branch) supports koa 2.x and 3.x
• koa-helmet 1.x (koa-1 branch) supports koa 0.x and koa 1.x

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