Retrofit 1 integrated a log feature for basic request and response debugging. The logging functionality was removed in Retrofit 2, since the required HTTP layer is now completely based on OkHttp. Since many developers asked for logging capabilities in Retrofit 2, the developers of OkHttp added a logging interceptor in …

The previous tutorials guided you through various use cases of Retrofit and showed you opportunities to enhance the app with Retrofit’s built-in functionality. This tutorial will show you how to upload a file to a backend server using the second major release of Retrofit, namely Retrofit 2. {{outline}} {{video} …

You already know how to use PM2 to start and stop processes. Honestly, installed tools, utilities and apps on your server to run your actual applications are one of the things you don’t want to touch that often and PM2 is no exception. Once everything is installed and running, …

Server labels aren’t available in hapi v17 This tutorial is only applicable until hapi v16. Multiple connections and the server.select() method are not available in hapi v17 anymore. Using hapi as the framework of choice for building web apps or APIs brings a lot built-in functionality to leverage …

NPM is the package manager of choice when working with Node.js. We don’t need to emphasize the importance of knowing your tools and of course, this holds true for NPM as well. This post will show you tips and tricks using NPM to show installed packages for your …

The last two blog posts on PM2 covered the utility overview and guided you through the process management including start, restart, stop and delete processes of various types (Node.js, Ruby, Python, PHP, etc). Once you have processes started with PM2, you want to get a comprehensive overview of currently …

With the release of hapi 9, the developers stripped down hapi’s internal dependencies and removed the previously integrated vision plugin. This plugin was responsible to decorate hapi’s server object with the views method. Removing the plugin from the framework’s core resulted in losing the server.views method. …

The previous NPM quick tips were all about installing packages and we want to enhance it by showing you shortcuts for package installations. NPM integrates multiple time savers for repetitive commands executed from the command line. To run the commands used within this article, we leverage NPM in version 2. …