Chapter 1. Introducing hapi.js
hapi.js (commonly referred to as hapi) stands for HTTP API. It is a rich framework for building applications and services. It was originally designed for the rapid development of RESTful API services using JavaScript, but has since grown to be a full web application framework with out-of-the-box features for templating, input validation, authentication, caching, and more recently, support for real-time applications with web socket support.
The original philosophy that hapi was built around was increasing developer hapi-ness; the aim was to increase productivity by providing additional tools to help with development, but without getting in the way. It was also built with a security-first approach, meaning that the ...
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