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. …

Within the previous PM2 post, we introduced the utility and touched some of its capabilities. This articles moves on to the core of PM2: process management. We show you how to list running process, start and restart new process as well as stop and delete running app servers to shut …

We’re huge fans of Node.js and NPM. Especially, hapi has taken a place in our hearts for the category of Node.js frameworks. And since Node ships with NPM (node package manager) by default, there are multiple tips, tricks and shortcuts which will save you time doing repetitive …

Back in May 2015 we updated our server setup and started to use a bunch of new tools to avoid server administration headaches. We mostly rely on Node.js apps (Ghost, our homepage is built on hapi, Strider) and wanted a reliable process manager to keep started servers alive. We …

Retrofit is a great HTTP client for Android (and Java) and the second major release will be available by the end of 2015. We already published an extensive series on Retrofit in the end of 2014 and beginning of 2015. Due to the popularity of this series, we decided to …