Node Cookbook - Third Edition

Creating a Hapi web app

Hapi is a fairly recent addition to the Enterprise web framework offerings. The Hapi web framework has a reputation for stability, but tends to perform slower (for instance, see https://raygun.com/blog/node-performance/) while also requiring more boilerplate than alternatives. With a contrasting philosophy and approach to Express (and other middleware frameworks such as Koa and Restify) Hapi may be better suited to certain scenarios and preferences. For instance, teams in large organizations that have a leaning towards Object Oriented Programming, particularly where Java is the prevailing tradition, may find Hapi more fitting to the cultural proclivities.

In this recipe, we'll create a simple Hapi web application. ...