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 …

There will be a new tutorial showing this functionality in hapi v17 This tutorial is targeted to hapi until v16. Because hapi v17 removes the feature to have multiple connections on a server, you need to create individual hapi servers for frontend and backend. Both have their own connection settings. …

There is a more convenient way to use multiple, different Handlebars base layouts in your project: Use Multiple Handlebars Layouts in hapi At the time of publishing this blog post, we recently pushed our new startpage and design enhancements for navigation and footer into production. With the release of these …

Hapi has great view support out of the box and ships with handlebars support by default. The framework offers multiple options to configure handlebars the way it fits perfectly into your project structure. Within earlier posts, we already guided you through the creation of a dynamic layout template and partial …

Virtuals are additional fields for a given model. Their values can be set manually or automatically with defined functionality. A common virtual property is the full name of a person, composed of user’s first and last name. Keep in mind: virtual properties don’t get persisted in the database. …

NodeJS ships with the awesome node package manager: NPM. NPM allows to install dependencies defined for your project via package.json. When running a node app in production you want it to install as quick as possible. Pushing new code into the app repository will probably start the continuous integration …

Sorting in RethinkDB (and JavaScript in general) can cause a lot of pain. We previously posted a workaroud for MongoDB to fix this issue. Now we're going to fix it for RethinkDB. The problem: RethinkDB (like MongoDB) always sorts case sensitive in the following order Numerics: 0-9 Uppercase letters: A-Z …