The hapi v17 release comes with a paradigm shift from callbacks to async/await. This shift includes a learning curve for hapi developers, too. You’ll run into errors like handler method did not return a value, a promise, or throw an error. What does this error mean and how …

Your Futureflix API grows in functionality and only you know how to use it. It’s important to document endpoints as early as possible so that external developers get a grasp on using it. Especially for the reason that you don’t want to do the “boring” documentation at the …

The Future Studio team (and company) is based in Germany and due to that fact, we needed to comply the VAT rules of the European Union while launching the Future Studio University. Precisely, because we’re located inside the EU, we need to make sure everyone enrolling from a EU …

Validating incoming user data is an important piece of your API. Make sure you heavily rely on hapi’s built-in validation features. The hapi core framework works great with the help of a schema validation library, called Joi. Never ever trust input data! On your end, provide helpful error messages …

Following this PM2 series, you’ve already learned how to manage your processes and how to declare an advanced JSON process file for a single or multiple applications. Declaring multiple applications in a single process file is a convenient way to keep your app definitions close together in a selected …

Request validation in hapi is a powerful feature and allows you to define fine-grained validation rules. In the previous tutorial, you put validation rules in place for the API TV show endpoint which returns a list of shows. Failed validations for the page and extend query parameters are handled by …

In a previously published PM2 tutorial, you’ve learned how to start a Node.js process with arguments. In that tutorial, we’ve used the idea to reduce the memory limit of Node.js to let the garbage collector clean up earlier. Well, sometimes you don’t see the forest …

Relations in Mongoose provide JOIN-like functionality and extend documents with related ones from other collections. In case of Futureflix, you know that a TV show has one or many seasons and each season has many episodes. You can imagine the large JSON result for a long-running TV show with a …