Triangle Node - Introduction To Hapi

Intro To Hapi

2014-03-18 by Ben Wheeler and Brian Marks (Meetup) (speaker notes)

What

• alternative to express
• originally built for mobile api

Not Express

• configuration over code
• explicit methods over settings
• plugin architecture over middleware

Routes

Route Prerequisites

like angular's resolve (maybe, but nobody knew angular)

Request Lifecycle

• set extension points for hooking into a request
• more granular than middleware

Validation

• specified in config block in route
• prevalidate all request parameters look good before calling handler
• default error messages tailored for developers, not end users
  • customize error messages with localization files (languages/en-us.json)

Plugins and Methods

plugins: caching, authentication et cetera

Templates and Views

Authentication

Caching

multi-strategy key-value store

Other

use lout to generate api documentation