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Node.js: Related Tools & Skills
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Node.js: Related Tools & Skills

by Craig Buckler, Jani Hartikainen, M. David Green, Olayinka Omole, Ahmed Bouchefra, Mark Brown, Paul Sauve, Manjunath M
November 2018
Intermediate to advanced
129 pages
1h 42m
English
SitePoint
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Chapter 6: Building Apps and Services with the Hapi.js Framework

by Mark Brown

Hapi.js is described as “a rich framework for building applications and services”. Hapi’s smart defaults make it a breeze to create JSON APIs, and its modular design and plugin system allow you to easily extend or modify its behavior.

The recent release of version 17.0 has fully embraced async and await, so you’ll be writing code that appears synchronous but is non-blocking and avoids callback hell. Win-win.

The Project

In this article, we’ll be building the following API for a typical blog from scratch:

# RESTful actions for fetching, creating, updating and deleting articles GET /articles articles#index GET /articles/:id articles#show POST /articles articles#create ...
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