Thinky is a lightweight Node.js ORM for RethinkDB. The library helps you to define models representing the objects you’re using within your code. Further, you can define various relations between each of your models. Primarily, Thinky helps you to CRUD documents in RethinkDB out of your Node.js …

This post is a follow up on our tutorial guiding you through the setup on how to submit and run a Node.js app on a CoreOS cluster. Within the previous post, we only showed you how to submit and run a single app instance on a given machine within …

During the last weeks, we’ve learned the fundamentals of three important components of the CoreOS ecosystem. Additionally, you’re able to manage key-value-pairs within etcd and services within our cluster using fleet featuring systemd. This gives us all the required knowledge to finally make the step from just running …

Previously, we published a guide on how to manage processes with PM2. The guide didn’t describe how to restart the PM2 process and managed applications after a system reboot. This is an essential feature for a process manager, because you heavily rely on system and server startup automation. You …

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 …

NPM is the package manager of choice when working with Node.js. We don’t need to emphasize the importance of knowing your tools and of course, this holds true for NPM as well. This post will show you tips and tricks using NPM to show installed packages for your …

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. …

We’re huge fans of Node.js and NPM. Especially, hapi has taken a place in our hearts for the category of Node.js frameworks. And since Node ships with NPM (node package manager) by default, there are multiple tips, tricks and shortcuts which will save you time doing repetitive …