Validating incoming user data is an important piece of your API. Make sure you heavily rely on hapi’s built-in validation features. The hapi core framework works great with the help of a schema validation library, called Joi. Never ever trust input data! On your end, provide helpful error messages …

Request validation in hapi is a powerful feature and allows you to define fine-grained validation rules. In the previous tutorial, you put validation rules in place for the API TV show endpoint which returns a list of shows. Failed validations for the page and extend query parameters are handled by …

Relations in Mongoose provide JOIN-like functionality and extend documents with related ones from other collections. In case of Futureflix, you know that a TV show has one or many seasons and each season has many episodes. You can imagine the large JSON result for a long-running TV show with a …

While implementing the first routes of your REST API, you noticed that requesting all shows returns ALL shows. With a growing set of TV shows, your API response will grow respectively. To reduce the amount of outgoing JSON data, implement pagination and let users fetch data when needed. {{outline}} Overview …

While creating the Futureflix API, you noticed that the JSON representation of documents contains the _id and version key __v. The _id field feels wrong due to the underscore prefix, so let’s remove it and keep only the id field. The version key __v isn’t necessary in the …

At some point you want to expand your platform from browsers to other clients. This could be native apps for Android and iOS. Or you want to shift gears and level up your web frontend with a client-side framework that communicates via JSON data instead of HTML. This is the …

Every app needs some kind of search. Serving content comes with the need to make it visible and what fits better than a full-text search. Because Futureflix uses MongoDB as its data store, you’ll implement a full-text search on top of it. Starting in version 3.2, MongoDB ships …