How to safely render HTML in React

Tag: Front-end

How to safely render HTML in React

How to render HTML in React safely, without the risks of XSS!

Hello again! Today we'll be talking about how to render HTML in React without the risk of XSS (Cross-Site Scripting) attacks, with the help of Interweave!


It's just like any other npm package, so you'll need to install it into your desired project with npm install interweave react, then you import it into your JSX/TSX file with import { Interweave } from 'interweave'. And now you can start using it!


In your React file, you'll use the Interweave tag, which is "Interweave content="your HTML code here", where the content props will be up to you to fill in. This tag also has a lot of other functions, such as utilizing filters, matchers and callbacks! But if you don't need those extra features and only need the HTML rendering function, you can use the "Markup content="your HTML code here". Don't forget to add proper tags to the quoted tags!


You can learn more about Interweave in the link I mentioned above, you'll need it! Thanks for reading, and stay determined!