The powerful plugin system is one of hapi’s most undervalued features! It’s a great component, well implemented and allows you to develop your features isolated from one another to separate concerns. Imagine this example: you’ve enabled CSRF protection using hapi’s crumb plugin and also want to …

Web application development with hapi allows you to build with rapid speed. Many boilerplates exist and provide the fundamental structure with functionality for user handling, view template management and more. That means you can jumpstart right into the nitty gritty development of your application. And of course in these social …

After publishing four tutorials specifically tailored to uploading files with Retrofit 2, we're still not done yet. In this tutorial we'll go a step further and show you how to show progress updates in the UI when the app is uploading files with Retrofit 2. This can be very useful …

In our extensive Retrofit series we show developers how to implement all kinds of API interactions from the client side on Android. In our hapi.js series developers can learn how to provide API endpoints from the server side to clients. Most of the technical tutorials assume some basic knowledge …

Pug is a feature rich template engine for Node.js and of course you can make use of it in your hapi project. Previously, the project was called Jade and the developers needed to rename it to Pug because of a registered trademark called “Jade”. Of course, that doesn’t …

Actively maintained applications get started and stopped very often. It’s not like the operating system of your web server that doesn’t get touched for years once set up ;-) Especially during development, you’re usually starting a local instance of your app multiple times a day! Update — hapi …

In the previous Gson blog posts, we've always read and written JSON from and to fully allocated memory objects. We assumed that the application already has the entire JSON file in memory. In this blog post, we'll explore Gson's support in cases that isn't possible. Gson makes it easy to …

Glide makes loading images in your Android app quite efficient. Powerful caches avoid loading images over the (mobile) network as much as possible. However, that's not always feasible. Glide has to load images from the Internet when they're not in one of the caches yet. Loading images over the network …