As an application developer, you should never trust the data provided by users. At any possible input! That doesn’t only apply for request payload send within the request body, but also for query parameters. This guide shows you how to apply query parameter validation for a given route in …

On November 1st, 2016 we’ve launched the Future Studio University —a membership that lets you access exclusive content— and also added automated error tracking to our platform. There’s a speaking called „you don’t know what you don’t know“ and that’s exactly what happened for us: …

Future Studio started with just a blog. We’ve used Ghost to write, publish and manage all the tutorials. While extending the blog to a comprehensive learning platform, we chose hapi as the foundational framework. While moving the functionality to show tutorials from Ghost to our own hapi server, we’ …

hapi-geo-locate is compatible with hapi v17 Please check the plugin’s Readme on GitHub for details on how to install a version for hapi v16. You know, we’re aficionados of the hapi framework for Node.js and surely rely on multiple plugins and dependencies. Honestly, we benefit a lot …

For us developers is an unwritten law to educate ourselves and keep track of new tools and technologies. It’s essential to continuously learn and make personal progress. You don’t want to be that guy who’s stuck in the 90’s with tools that are outdated since years! …

The system process of Node.js starts your applications with a default memory limit. If you’re going to run an application that saves a lot of data into variables and therefore memory, you may run into a Node.js process exit due to allocation issues. Increasing Node’s memory …

Handling request headers isn’t a use case that comes to mind immediately when thinking through the development process of your app. You might think of routes, requests, appropriate responses and the design of your views. And at some point, you’re in a more advanced development stage and see …

Node.js developers are very familiar with the callback pattern. During the last years, a common practice has taken place within the community: error-first callbacks. That was quite sufficient for the last years. Now that promises and generator functions are around the corner, it’s time to start thinking outside …