Hashing passwords

#7 - Use a combination of helmet to set HTTP Headers, rate-limiter to protect against brute-force attacks and password hashing to secure your matching application.

Helmet can help protect your app from some well-known web vulnerabilities by setting HTTP headers appropriately. Rate-limiting prevents brute forcing. For example you can limit how many times a user can try to login in a given time window. Password hashing transform the text passwords into a string of fixed length using a hash function (similar to encryption). It is a common practice to store passwords as Hash Value in the database and not in Plain Text