Node.js developers are very familiar with the callback pattern. During the last years, a common practice has taken place within the community: error-first callbacks. That was quite sufficient for the last years. Now that promises and generator functions are around the corner, it’s time to start thinking outside …

In an earlier published tutorial, we’ve touched the topic of filtering documents by fields of nested objects using Thinky. With the native support of joins in RethinkDB, you’re able to structure your documents with relations between individual Thinky models. That means, splitting up your nested objects into separate …

Requesting data from API endpoints that might respond with large datasets is obviously bad practice. Breaking down massive information packets into smaller chunks is the idea behind pagination. There’s no de facto standard on how to implement pagination on server-side and therefore, clients have to adapt to the solution …

When working with OAuth 2 APIs, you have to manage access tokens and sometimes also refresh tokens. Generally, the access token is what you’ll use to authenticate your requests. However, the access tokens are short lived and the lifetime differs per API provider. Due to security reasons, the access …

Within previous tutorials throughout this hapi series, you’ve seen a lot functionality related to the server itself, requests and authentication. This guide is the first one geared towards responses and precisely shows you how to set the response status code that follows the RFC. Before diving into the details, …

Within last week’s tutorial you’ve learned how to access the request payload in hapi. Because you should never, ever trust provided data submitted by users, a common process is to validate the request payload against a given rule set. hapi streamlines this procedure and integrates a validation process …

Up to this point, you’ve mastered 14 tutorials on hapi in this beginner series. Finally, we’re arriving at the point where you’re gonna handle and make use of large data sets arriving at your server. Actually, it doesn’t need to be a large data set that …

Last week’s tutorial on hapi walked you through optional path parameters and showed you how to specify routes leveraging optional parameters in their path. Within this week’s guide you’ll learn about route definitions using wildcard path parameters to match routes with multiple segments. Before diving into the …