Getting Started with hapi.js

Serving templates with vision

In most situations, when building a web application or website like that of the previous example, you won't just serve HTML files. Although some applications use this approach, where a single HTML is served, and then the JavaScript on the page interacts with the server through APIs to customize the page (commonly referred to as a Single Page App) which would be common in an AngularJS application, most web applications will customize the content served before is sent. This is commonly known as server-side rendering. There has been a lot of innovation in this area recently from client-side libraries such as React, where some of the page is rendered server-side and some on the client. These have been dubbed UniversalJS ...