Following this PM2 series, you’ve already learned how to manage your processes and how to declare an advanced JSON process file for a single or multiple applications. Declaring multiple applications in a single process file is a convenient way to keep your app definitions close together in a selected …

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 …

In a previously published PM2 tutorial, you’ve learned how to start a Node.js process with arguments. In that tutorial, we’ve used the idea to reduce the memory limit of Node.js to let the garbage collector clean up earlier. Well, sometimes you don’t see the forest …

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 …

Travis CI is a sophisticated continuous integration and deployment service. It integrates with GitHub and runs tests on events like commits or pull requests. {{outline}} {{video}} At this point, we published two hapi plugins. Testing both plugins is an essential part of our development flow to know they are mature …

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 …