Load balancing a great method to reduce latency, improve resource utilization and ultimately increase fault-tolerance. If you already use nginx as a reverse proxy, you can easily update your configuration to enable load balancing functionality for your application. This guide shows you how to configure nginx to forward requests to …

Handlebars is a great templating language with partial view support. It’s highly extensible and adjustable with custom helper functions to add individual features if required. If you’ve ever worked with the Jade templating engine, you probably know and used the block feature which adds a placeholder into your …

There will be a new tutorial showing this functionality in hapi v17 This tutorial is targeted to hapi until v16. Because hapi v17 removes the feature to have multiple connections on a server, you need to create individual hapi servers for frontend and backend. Both have their own connection settings. …

There is a more convenient way to use multiple, different Handlebars base layouts in your project: Use Multiple Handlebars Layouts in hapi At the time of publishing this blog post, we recently pushed our new startpage and design enhancements for navigation and footer into production. With the release of these …

Hapi has great view support out of the box and ships with handlebars support by default. The framework offers multiple options to configure handlebars the way it fits perfectly into your project structure. Within earlier posts, we already guided you through the creation of a dynamic layout template and partial …

Within the previous post about hapi and handlebars, we show you how to create a dynamic layout template. Actually, this was just the surface of the functionality hapi provides with its handlebars integration. The view configuration for handlebars with hapi allows multiple options. This article shows you how to use …

Implementing search on mobile devices is always tricky. You need to consider design and especially user experience aspects. No Submit Button The tricky question we had to ask ourselves while implementing design and functionality: how to create a smooth search experience without a submit button? Actually, there are some search …

We recently updated our SSL certificate for futurestud.io. We decided to use AES256 for the new SSL certificate which requires a password for the .key file. At this point, we didn’t think of any problems with nginx. The nerve-racking part was waiting in secret! {{outline}} Problem: Nginx Asking …