Chapter 2. Building an API
This chapter covers
- Building an API with hapi.js
- Integrating business logic
- Working with databases
You saw in chapter 1 that hapi apps are constructed by working with servers, routes, handlers, plugins, and your own business logic. In this chapter, you’ll see how those pieces come together. First I introduce a fictional brief for an API project that I’m going to build. Next I figure out the technical requirements and plan the API endpoints. Then I move on to implementing this in hapi step-by-step.
I won’t be diving too deeply into any single component of hapi yet. Instead, I’m going to take a more high-level approach, giving you the bigger picture of how apps in hapi are built.
2.1. Designing the API
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