THIS. IS._SPARTAN!

node application to package & configure common security middleware into your application => returns a policy file and boilerplate code

QUICK START!

1. Create a new application: npm init to accept the defaults be sure to use the ‘-y’ flag optional: Enable version control w/ git: git init
2. Install the package:

   npm install -g spartan-shield

   
   installs _spartan as a command line module you can use in any project
   • There’s some wonkiness installing on Linux using the -g flag as access to /usr/bin/ requires elevated permissions. To overcome this, install as sudo npm install -g spartan-shield. If necessary, you should still be able to install and run it locally without the global flag
3. Run the package: _spartan init creates a policy based upon your answers to a few questions. Use ‘y’ to generate a default policy and boilerplate code

HOW YOU KNOW IT WORKED

Assuming there are no errors, you will see 3 new files/folders in your local directory:

• security.json => the policy file based upon the questions you answered OR the default policy
• security.js => the module which points to all of the submodules generated based upon your policy
• security/ => all of the pre-configured submodules generated from your policy. security.js points to these files.

HOW YOU KNOW IT DIDN’T WORK

_spartan throws ‘ENOENT’ (no entity) errors for each of the following conditions

• No package.json file => either run npm init or make sure to run _spartan from the same location as package.json
• No default policy => if you run _spartan -D and get this error, then _spartan can’t find the default policy (packaged with the module); the quickest way to deal with this is to pull the default policy from github by running _spartan -R which restores the factory default policy
  • Default policy restoration requires wget. If you don’t already have this installed, use homebrew or similar to get this package

Other potential installation errors

Required programs missing => _spartan won’t be able to generate integrity (hash) values if either shasum or openssl utilities are missing; if you don’t already have them installed, use homebrew or similar to install them or make sure they are correctly linked to /usr/bin | /usr/local/bin system directories depending upon your operating system

EXAMPLES!

See the example apps in the example folder

MORE INFORMATION!

• Read the docs: https://docs.spartan-security.io/
• Ask a question: @darkmsph1t => Twitter
• Submit an issue: here