How to use Helmet without Express

Helmet is Connect-style middleware, which means it’s compatible with web frameworks like Express and Connect.

People have ported Helmet to other frameworks like Koa and Fastify.

If you’re not using Helmet with Express, you can pass an http.IncomingMessage, http.ServerResponse, and a callback function. For example, here’s how to use Helmet with Node’s built-in HTTP module:

const http = require("http");
const helmet = require("helmet");

const runHelmet = helmet();

const server = http.createServer((req, res) => {
  runHelmet(req, res, (err) => {
    if (err) {
      res.statusCode = 500;
      res.end(
        "Helmet failed for some unexpected reason. Was it configured correctly?"
      );
      return;
    }

    res.end("Hello world!");
  });
});

server.listen(3000);