Extracting Hidden API Endpoints from React SPA Bundles: A Repeatable Recon Workflow
How to reconstruct an entire API surface from client-side code when directory scanning returns nothing but 200s.
Most bug bounty targets today ship as single-page applications (SPAs). The server hands you a near-empty index.html, and a few megabytes of JavaScript draw the entire app. Buried inside those bundles is the application's real attack surface — every API operation the frontend can call, along with the exact wire format it uses to call them.
This article walks through a repeatable workflow for extracting that surface, using a real (anonymized) engagement as the example.