Practical Exercise: Personalized Dashboard

Task

Develop a secure feature in React that allows users to create and manage personalized dashboard links and protects them against URL spoofing vulnerabilities.

Instructions

Create a React feature where users can configure and share dashboard settings through encoded URLs. This task involves building components for creating and displaying dashboards and handling URL parameters securely.

1. Dashboard configurator component: Build a component that allows users to select widgets or settings for their dashboard. Please include a button to generate a shareable URL containing the encoded dashboard configuration.

2. URL handler component: This component will parse the URL to extract and decode the dashboard configuration. Implement functionality to sanitize and validate the extracted parameters to prevent spoofing.

3. Dashboard display component: Create a component to display the dashboard based on the configuration provided in the URL. Please ensure the display logic follows security best practices to prevent URL spoofing.

4. Security measures: Ensure the entire process incorporates robust security measures, from generating the URL to displaying the dashboard.

Coding playground

Get started on the exercise with this pre-made code sample.