Regular expressions Course

A look at regular expressions and how to handle them.

34 minutes

Course description

Regular expressions are one of the most powerful, yet dangerous parts of JavaScript. In this course, we will dig into them to understand what risks they can bring and how to mitigate them.

Syllabus

JavaScript regular expression catastrophic backtracking

Video - 00:17:00
JavaScript regular expressions allow catastrophic backtracking, how can you identify it and secure your code?
Refreshers on JavaScript regular expressions

Video - 00:17:00
A refresher on regular expressions.

Meet the author

Vladimir de Turckheim

Vladimir is a core Node.js collaborator and is involved in most security-related topics of the Node.js project. He has worked for seven years as an Application Security expert at Sqreen and as a Staff Engineer at Datadog. He is now building a new company.
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