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Node Cookbook - Fourth Edition

By : Bethany Griggs
4 (1)
Book Image

Node Cookbook - Fourth Edition

4 (1)
By: Bethany Griggs

Overview of this book

A key technology for building web applications and tooling, Node.js brings JavaScript to the server enabling full-stack development in a common language. This fourth edition of the Node Cookbook is updated with the latest Node.js features and the evolution of the Node.js framework ecosystems. This practical guide will help you to get started with creating, debugging, and deploying your Node.js applications and cover solutions to common problems, along with tips to avoid pitfalls. You'll become familiar with the Node.js development model by learning how to handle files and build simple web applications and then explore established and emerging Node.js web frameworks such as Express.js and Fastify. As you advance, you'll discover techniques for detecting problems in your applications, handling security concerns, and deploying your applications to the cloud. This recipe-based guide will help you to easily navigate through various core topics of server-side web application development with Node.js. By the end of this Node book, you'll be well-versed with core Node.js concepts and have gained the knowledge to start building performant and scalable Node.js applications.
Table of Contents (14 chapters)

Building web applications with Hapi

Hapi is another framework for web applications. The original version of Hapi was created based on Express to handle Walmart's Black Friday Sale scaling requirements. Hapi has a contrasting philosophy compared to the other web frameworks we've covered in this chapter.

In this recipe, we will be using the latest version of Hapi, v19, to create a web server. In the There's more section, we will discover how to use some of the Hapi plugins.

Important Note

Hapi follows a detailed long-term support policy, where specific versions of the framework are maintained for specific Node.js versions. Hapi's v19 is the latest release and the first release to support Node.js 14. Hapi lists its support information at https://hapi.dev/resources/status/#hapi.

Getting ready

First, let's create a directory named hapi-app to hold our project. As we'll be using modules from npm, we'll also need to initialize a new project...