What security mechanisms does Meteor have? [closed]

We all know that Meteor offers the miniMongo driver which seamlessly allows the client to access the persistent layer (MongoDB).

If any client can access the persistent API how does one secure his application?

What are the security mechanisms that Meteor provides and in what context should they be used?

Solution 1:

When you create a app using meteor command, by default the app includes the following packages:

• AUTOPUBLISH
• INSECURE

Together, these mimic the effect of each client having full read/write access to the server's database. These are useful prototyping tools (development purposes only), but typically not appropriate for production applications. When you're ready for production release, just remove these packages.

To add more, Meteor supports Facebook / Twitter / and Much More packages to handle authentication, and the coolest is the Accounts-UI package

Solution 2:

In the collections doc says:

Currently the client is given full write access to the collection. They can execute arbitrary Mongo update commands. Once we build authentication, you will be able to limit the client's direct access to insert, update, and remove. We are also considering validators and other ORM-like functionality.

Solution 3:

If you are talking about restricting the client not to use any of your unauthorized insert/update/delete API, thats possible.

See their, todo app at https://github.com/meteor/meteor/tree/171816005fa2e263ba54d08d596e5b94dea47b0d/examples/todos

Also, they have now added a built in AUTH module, that lets you login and register. So its safe. As far as you are taking care of XSS , Valiations, client headers etc.

but you can anyday convert meteor app into fully working nodejs application by deploying to node. So if you know how to secure a nodejs application you should be able to secure meteor.