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Getting Started with hapi.js

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Getting Started with hapi.js

Overview of this book

This book will introduce hapi.js and walk you through the creation of your first working application using the out-of-the-box features hapi.js provides. Packed with real-world problems and examples, this book introduces some of the basic concepts of hapi.js and Node.js and takes you through the typical journey you'll face when developing an application. Starting with easier concepts such as routing requests, building APIs serving JSON, using templates to build websites and applications, and connecting databases, we then move on to more complex problems such as authentication, model validation, caching, and techniques for structuring your codebase to scale gracefully. You will also develop skills to ensure your application's reliability through testing, code coverage, and logging. By the end of this book, you'll be equipped with all the skills you need to build your first fully featured application. This book will be invaluable if you are investigating Node.js frameworks or planning on using hapi.js in your next project.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
Getting Started with hapi.js
Credits
Foreword
About the Author
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
5
Securing Applications with Authentication and Authorization
Index

Summary


Congratulations on finishing this book! I hope it has given you a huge amount to think about, and furthered your knowledge of hapi greatly so you can start writing robust and fully-featured applications today.

If you're new to Node, moving on from reading examples and working through pre-defined problems to writing your own applications from scratch can be tough. Don't be disheartened if this is the case—this will come with time as you write more. Moreover, in the previous section I've listed plenty of resources to help you along the way.

In this book, we've covered hapi, the configuration-centric framework that helps rapidly build robust APIs and web applications. We've looked at adding functionality to our applications through adding routes and serving different types of content such as JSON, static files, or rendered templates. We then looked at different methods for structuring applications, using hapi's excellent plugin system. Following that, we explored the different options...