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 …

Trying to install the node-package bcrypt on windows can be a lot of pain. I’ve tried it on four different systems; one time it worked like a charm but the other times I had to search a lot to solve several problems. Mostly those problems were caused by the …

Handlebars is a great templating language with partial view support. It’s highly extensible and adjustable with custom helper functions to add individual features if required. If you’ve ever worked with the Jade templating engine, you probably know and used the block feature which adds a placeholder into your …