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 …

The nicest things are details. It's all about details, always. We were looking for nice effects to remove the break when loading recipe pictures for eatfoody and came across dominant picture colors. Concretely, the dominant picture color is the color that describes the given picture best in one color code. …

This error is strange, because it appears when you're trying to install a new package globally with NPM, npm install -g <package-name>. The output of this command is something like this: npm ERR! peerinvalid The package grunt does not satisfy its siblings' peerDependencies requirements! npm ERR! peerinvalid Peer …