js-xss vs Themis

js-xss

Sanitize untrusted HTML (to prevent XSS) with a configuration specified by a Whitelist (by leizongmin)

#Security

Source Code

jsxss.com

Themis

Easy to use cryptographic framework for data protection: secure messaging with forward secrecy and secure data storage. Has unified APIs across 14 platforms. (by cossacklabs)

Source Code

cossacklabs.com

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js-xss		Themis
	Project
2	Mentions	1
4,376	Stars	1,413
-	Growth	2.3%
5.6	Activity	8.0
19 days ago	Latest Commit	20 days ago
HTML	Language	C
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	Apache License 2.0

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js-xss

Posts with mentions or reviews of js-xss. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-02-16.

Storing user input html in a database for others users to see
1 project | reddit.com/r/webdev | 29 Nov 2021

Searching for XSS specifically actually comes up with a few - https://www.npmjs.com/package/xss looks solid. I was being to literal in my search! Should have tried bing.
Browser extension - Integrate your features securely
2 projects | dev.to | 16 Feb 2021

There are a few libraries you can use to protect from xss. For instance the xss library on npm.

Themis

Posts with mentions or reviews of Themis. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-05-12.

Backstage: cryptographic R&D internship at Cossack Labs
4 projects | dev.to | 12 May 2021

Now, the real world work starts. We introduce interns to the world of popular cryptographic libraries, help them to make their first OSS contributions, and let them practice with our cryptographic library Themis which provides a high-level crypto API on 14 languages.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing js-xss and Themis you can also consider the following projects:

DOMPurify - DOMPurify - a DOM-only, super-fast, uber-tolerant XSS sanitizer for HTML, MathML and SVG. DOMPurify works with a secure default, but offers a lot of configurability and hooks. Demo:

NeDB - The JavaScript Database, for Node.js, nw.js, electron and the browser

sanitize-html - Clean up user-submitted HTML, preserving whitelisted elements and whitelisted attributes on a per-element basis. Built on htmlparser2 for speed and tolerance

cryptography - cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.

Crypto++ - free C++ class library of cryptographic schemes

Apache Shiro - Apache Shiro

libsodium - A modern, portable, easy to use crypto library.

Botan - Cryptography Toolkit

xss-filters

Paramiko - The leading native Python SSHv2 protocol library.

Symmetric Encryption - Symmetric Encryption for Ruby Projects using OpenSSL

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