Marcus is a fullstack JS developer. He’s passionate about the hapi framework for Node.js and loves to build web apps and APIs. Creator of Futureflix and the “learn hapi” learning path.
Sending emails from your application is a beneficial feature. In situations where a user signs up for your platform or wants to reset the password, use their attention. Welcome emails should have a single, targeted call to action. The foundations of all the tactics to use the user’s attention …
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It’s always good to know how to implement the boilerplate parts of a web application. Within the previous tutorial of this “learn hapi” learning path, you’ve implemented the sign up flow to onboard users. Add the second part that belongs to user onboarding: the login flow. The current …
Continue ReadingPM2 gives you the opportunity to create advanced application configurations, also known as a process file or ecosystem file. Within those process files, you can define environment variables and make them only available to the related application. Even further, PM2 provides the feature to create multiple environments with completely different …
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A sign-up flow, with an email address and password, is one of the de-facto features web apps implement. Assumingly, every web developer has implemented this part of a boilerplate themselves 😉 You know what? That’s totally fine because it’s important to know the fundamentals of all this and that …
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Developer tools are a minefield. We’re so picky about the tools we use and require a high quality or don’t even consider them. You have an ingrained workflow if you’re like me, you behave like a robot when starting your programming. Update — February 28th 2018 The code …
Continue ReadingWe’ve mentioned in the introductory tutorial and the stack preparation that your Futureflix implementation uses MongoDB to store data. You won’t interact with MongoDB using the Node.js driver. Instead, you’ll use Mongoose to model your application and save, update or delete objects within the datastore. This …
Continue ReadingValidating user input is crucial to your application and you should never trust the incoming request data. Please make sure you’re validating the provided user data before sending it to your database. You never know when a user tries to DROP TABLE users. Within the related tutorials, you can …
Continue ReadingEnvironment Variables and Storing Secrets You’re jumping right into the first practical tutorial! Even though the title sounds very much like non-stop theory, you’ll just walk through basics on how to keep secrets (sensitive data) out of your project and repository. Afterwards, it’s time to put your …
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