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Play by Play: JavaScript Security

by Aaron Powell and Troy Hunt

In this course, you’ll learn how to minimize the security risks that are present when working with Single-page Applications.

What you'll learn

Play by Play is a series in which top technologists work through a problem in real time, unrehearsed, and unscripted. In this course, Play by Play: JavaScript Security, Troy Hunt and Aaron Powell demonstrate building an application in the browser, particularly a Single-page Application (SPA), and show how the application works, and its visibility to the user. By the end of this course, you’ll have a better understanding of how to minimize some common security risks when working with Single-page Applications.

About the authors

Aaron is a Senior Developer and Technical Web Specialist with Readify and Microsoft MVP for Internet Explorer Development. Professionally Aaron does a lot of work on the ASP.Net stack, through MVC to WebForms, as well as non-Microsoft technologies such as Node.js. Aaron is passionate about teaching developers how to make the most out of their chosen technologies and doing web development in the best way possible. A guilty pleasure of his is JavaScript; if you can do it in JavaScript he’s probabl... more

Troy Hunt is a Microsoft Regional Director and MVP for Developer Security, an ASPInsider, and a full time Author for Pluralsight—a leader in online training for technology and creative professionals. Troy has been building software for browsers since the very early days of the web and possesses an exceptional ability to distill complex subjects into relatable explanations. This has led Troy to become an industry thought leader in the security space and produce more than twenty top-rated courses ... more

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