Build well-structured, clean, and testable applications and web servers using Hapi.js
About This Book
- With the help of this book, you will improve your productivity as a developer and that of your team by focusing on business logic utilizing the structure that Hapi.js provides
- You will be introduced to a real-world problem and we'll demonstrate how to use the tools Hapi provides to resolve it
- This is the only book with a learn-by-example approach
Who This Book Is For
If you are a JavaScript developer with or without node.js experience and would like to learn to build applications, APIs, and web servers with a best-in-class framework such as Hapi.js, this book is perfect for you.
What You Will Learn
- Create API servers that scale gracefully
- Build websites and applications using different templating technologies
- Structure your codebase using Hapi.js plugins to break functionality into more manageable chunks
- Simplify securing your applications with the authentication workflow that Hapi.js provides
- Ensure application reliability with testing and coverage
- Reduce code complexity using reusable model validation logic with Joi
- Make your server ready for production
- Increase your productivity by taking advantage of Hapi.js' many features
In Detail
Node.js has become an increasingly popular choice for companies building servers and applications of all sizes and scales, from personal projects to complex enterprise applications. Hapi.js is one of the best-in-class frameworks for building applications with a solid foundational structure and security. It provides the tools that enable developers to be more productive by focusing on business logic instead of wasting time on application infrastructure.
This book will introduce Hapi.js and show you how to create your first working application using of the many features it provides. Packed with real-world problems and examples, this book introduces some of the base concepts of Hapi.js and Node.js and takes you through the typical journey you'll face when developing most applications.
Starting with easier concepts such as routing requests, building APIs serving JSON, using templates to build websites, 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 take your first application to production. This book will be an invaluable introduction if you are planning on using Hapi.js in your next project.
John Brett is a software engineer passionate about new technologies, open source,and building useful software while travelling the world. Starting out in Ireland with adegree in Computer Science and Software Engineer, he went on to join IBM throughtheir premier internship Extreme Blue, later working on collaboration software as partof IBM's Software Group. There, John mainly worked with PHP and JavaScript, onlyworking with Node.js in his spare time.Later in his career, John moved to a growing SAAS company called D4H Technologies.As a lead engineer there, he developed tools to aid emergency response teams globally,all from a lighthouse in Dublin, Ireland. Here, John got more exposure to Node.js,leading D4H's first venture into Node using hapi.js, later joining the hapi.js core team.
