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Web Development with MongoDB and Node - Third Edition

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Web Development with MongoDB and Node - Third Edition

Overview of this book

Node.js builds fast, scalable network applications while MongoDB is the perfect fit as a high-performance, open source NoSQL database solution. The combination of these two technologies offers high performance and scalability and helps in building fast, scalable network applications. Together they provide the power for manage any form of data as well as speed of delivery. This book will help you to get these two technologies working together to build web applications quickly and easily, with effortless deployment to the cloud. You will also learn about angular 4, which consumes pure JSON APOIs from a hapi server. The book begins by setting up your development environment, running you through the steps necessary to get the main application server up-and-running. Then you will see how to use Node.js to connect to a MongoDB database and perform data manipulations. From here on, the book will take you through integration with third-party tools to interact with web apps. You will see how to use controllers and view models to generate reusable code that will reduce development time. Toward the end, the book supplies tests to properly execute your code and take your skills to the next level with the most popular frameworks for developing web applications. By the end of the book, you will have a running web application developed with MongoDB, Node.js, and some of the most powerful and popular frameworks.
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
Title Page
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewer
www.PacktPub.com
Customer Feedback
Preface

Hapi


Hapi is the result of the team behind Walmart's online mobile website. The team that built that website developed a rich set of Node.js utilities and libraries that can be found under the Spumko umbrella. Considering the tremendous amount of traffic Walmart's website receives on any given day, it's no wonder that the team at Walmart Labs is on the top of their game when it comes to Node.js development and best practices. Hapi is the web framework that was born from the ashes of real-world trial and error. The Hapi website is at http://hapijs.com.

More information about Hapi can be found on its website, as well as its official GitHub repo at https://github.com/spumko/hapi. In next section, we will implement a set of API's in the Hapi framework.

Kick starting Hapi.js

In previous chapters, we studied and implemented Express framework. The Express community denotes it as minimalistic framework, and it thus provides performance benefits. For building any application, choosing the right framework...