When developing an application some will think about security and some may not. Security is very crucial during the development phase. Before dive deep into the article let’s look at some basics like what’s API security and why is it so important? API Security is the protection of the integrity of APIs that we use and own. These days most businesses use API to connect services and to transfer data. If that API is broken, exposed, or hacked it will lead to a data breach. So based on the information transferred, we need to consider the level of API Security that we going to implement in the application. In this article, I’ll show some useful npm packages that’ll help us to prevent common security issues.

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