NPM as a package manager provides a lot capabilities outside the actual dependency management. You can leverage a built-in functionality to run scripts which enables the use case of NPM as a build tool. Further, you can define a script within your package.json file that executes various tasks before …

You added a profile editing screen in the previous tutorial. This profile editing view lets users update their personal username and homepage. Up to this point, each user has a blank profile after signing up. Following this tutorial, you’ll generate a username based on the user’s email address …

Hapi is our favorite Node.js web framework. One of the reasons we love hapi is the easiness of testing. The built-in server.inject method helps you to follow a test-driven development approach. This tutorial gets you started with testing in hapi. You’ll set up your project to run …

During the last weeks, you made tremendous progress on “learn hapi” and your Futureflix app grows in functionality. Up to this point, you rely on hapi’s built-in security mechanisms. We didn’t care about adding custom protection yet (which is totally fine). That changes now and it’s what …

There are already two related PM2 tutorials available that show you how to start a Node.js process with V8 arguments and how to start your Node.js application with increased memory limit from the command line. Depending on whether you’re starting your applications using a JSON config file …

You probably follow along with this “learn hapi” learning path and your Futureflix app already contains a sign up and login to onboard users. But there’s no personal user area. Users can’t edit their information in a profile editing screen, yet. At the end of this tutorial, you’ …

The release of hapi v17 marks a change of the framework towards modern Node.js features. With v17, hapi has full end-to-end support for async/await. This major release is basically a rewrite of the hapi code base from callbacks to async/await. The recent changes in JavaScript and Node. …

Using Gravatar for profile pictures feels like the snake game on Nokia phones. You know, the Nokia phones that are still charged if you’d find one in your winter jacket 😄 The older Nokia phones with model names like “Nokia 3210” used to have a game installed called “snake”. You …