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. Using hapi as the framework of choice for building web apps or APIs brings a lot built-in functionality to leverage …

With the release of hapi 9, the developers stripped down hapi’s internal dependencies and removed the previously integrated vision plugin. This plugin was responsible to decorate hapi’s server object with the views method. Removing the plugin from the framework’s core resulted in losing the server.views method. …

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 …

Hapi has great built-in support for various template engines like Handlebars or Jade, and HTML itself, of course. However, the Hapi view documentation suffers from incomplete information when working with Handlebars and only presents rudimentary examples to integrate Handlebars and layouts. Composing a complex layout within a web project with …