As with every web form where users need to provide their credentials, a login form can be complex. You know all the situations that can occur for invalid user inputs, like validation errors and the related handling, making sure the user understands what’s wrong, rendering the related input fields …

In a previous tutorial you’ve learned the basics on how to reply custom views for failed validations. The main goal in the linked tutorial is to become familiar with the failAction method for failed validations at hapi route handlers. This time, you’ll go further and display all validation …

The hapi ecosystem provides a large amount of plugins and they extend the default framework’s functionality. One of these plugins is vision, which adds template rendering support for engines like handlebars. Enhancing your web views with a client-side framework is common these days. When choosing Vue.js and handlebars …

Within previously published tutorials, you’ve learned how to authenticate users with GitHub and GitLab. Both guides walk you through the details on how to integrate a third party service with your hapi server, but don’t show you how to combine the user’s profile data from that service …

Securing routes with authentication mechanisms is a common way to allow only selected people access to a given resource. If you’re tired of implementing boilerplate code for login and signup again, benefit from hapi’s powerful plugin system and integrate with third-party services to leverage OAuth access. This tutorial …

OAuth is a convenient authentication mechanism where users grant access to their account for a selected application. You as a developer can benefit from an authentication token that allows you to access the service on your users behalf. With OAuth you can connect services and build convenient integrations for your …

While developing your application, you might want to secure resources with authentication. Creating your own sign up and log in flow is boilerplate code you want to avoid. At this point, you can benefit from authentication mechanisms like OAuth. With OAuth you can integrate with another platform and users allow …

Validations are built into hapi’s core and the framework has first class support for Joi, the schema validation framework. The overall validation setup for individual routes is very convenient and expressive, you’ll see that in a minute. The default behavior for failed validations is to send proper error …