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 …

Testing in hapi builds on top of a single method: server.inject. Injecting requests is a core element in testing your hapi app. A previous tutorial walked you through the basics of injecting requests to test route handlers. What we didn’t cover there is the ability to inject requests …

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 …

One of the reasons we’re passionate about hapi is its easiness of testing. The framework has a built-in server.inject method that simulates an incoming HTTP request. A server.inject call won’t create a socket connection. You’re not relying to the network stack to run tests in …

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 …