Hapi is our favorite Node.js web framework. One of the reasons we love hapi is the easiness of testing. The built-in server.inject method helps you to follow a test-driven development approach. This tutorial gets you started with testing in hapi. You’ll set up your project to run …

During the last weeks, you made tremendous progress on “learn hapi” and your Futureflix app grows in functionality. Up to this point, you rely on hapi’s built-in security mechanisms. We didn’t care about adding custom protection yet (which is totally fine). That changes now and it’s what …

There are already two related PM2 tutorials available that show you how to start a Node.js process with V8 arguments and how to start your Node.js application with increased memory limit from the command line. Depending on whether you’re starting your applications using a JSON config file …

You probably follow along with this “learn hapi” learning path and your Futureflix app already contains a sign up and login to onboard users. But there’s no personal user area. Users can’t edit their information in a profile editing screen, yet. At the end of this tutorial, you’ …

The release of hapi v17 marks a change of the framework towards modern Node.js features. With v17, hapi has full end-to-end support for async/await. This major release is basically a rewrite of the hapi code base from callbacks to async/await. The recent changes in JavaScript and Node. …

Using Gravatar for profile pictures feels like the snake game on Nokia phones. You know, the Nokia phones that are still charged if you’d find one in your winter jacket 😄 The older Nokia phones with model names like “Nokia 3210” used to have a game installed called “snake”. You …

PM2 is a great and easy to use process manager with support for various programming languages. We at Future Studio love PM2 and use it for all our apps. Each individual application can be started separately using the command line or you can benefit from multiple or just a single …