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 …

Assumingly, you agree that application monitoring and logging is an essential part of your application. Within previous tutorials, you’ve already learned about the fundamentals of logging in hapi and how to log to console in your hapi app. This tutorial shows you how to pass and store your log …

This isn’t available for hapi v17, yet. The used plugin hapi-graceful-pm2 isn’t compatible with hapi v17. I’ll update this tutorial as soon as there’s a way to work with hapi v17. Promise! The previous tutorial on how to correctly stop your hapi server already teasered another …

Logging is an essential component in your application that provides transparency to the behavior of a running system. You’ve various use cases to put your logs to work. By default, hapi doesn’t have a logging mechanism integrated. There are plugins that add the desired functionality and help you …

Server labels aren’t available in hapi v17 This tutorial is only applicable until hapi v16. Multiple connections and the server.select() method are not available in hapi v17 anymore. Within a previous tutorial, you’ve already seen how to separate the frontend and backend within a single hapi project. …

Logs are an essential part of every application, because they provide visibility throughout the life cycle. Log messages commonly get written to stdout or a file, but that’s just a location of the actual messages. More important is the output format which ultimately helps you to analyze the behavior …

HTTP as a stateless protocol won’t keep the client’s state across different requests in your application. A common example for this scenario is the log-in and afterwards remember the user credentials for a defined time interval, like until the browser window gets closed. In case you don’t …

The process of validating input data is important to avoid security issues or application errors due to malicious intentions by users. It’s essential that you never trust user data, because there’s always the one user that just wants to test if your application has the security glitch and …