JavaScript and JSON Essentials - Second Edition

Configuring a plugin in hapi

Plugins provide a way to handle a business logic in a different piece of code. The implementation of the plugin can differ from middleware to any third-party utility methods used for a specific purpose.

Let's create a custom plugin to know how plugins work. To integrate plugins, we need to create a file called plugins.js in our application. The plugin.js consist of a snippet, which is presented as follows:

exports.logRequest = {  register(server, options){      console.log("A plugin got called!");  },  name : "logRequest"}

The preceding code only contains the minimal properties required to compose a plugin.

The composition consists of a simple object with the register method and name as keys.

register: This is a callback ...