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Beginning API Development with Node.js

You're reading from   Beginning API Development with Node.js Build highly scalable, developer-friendly APIs for the modern web with JavaScript and Node.js

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jul 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789539660
Length 100 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Setting up Hapi.js

Hapi.js (HTTP API), is a rich framework for building applications and services, focusing on writing reusable application logic. There are a number of other frameworks; notable among them is Express.js. However, from the ground up, Hapi.js is optimized for API building, and we will see this shortly when building our application.

Exercise 1: Building a Basic Hapi.js Server

In this exercise, we're going to build a basic HTTP server like the one before, but now with Hapi.js. You will notice how most of the things are done for us under the hood with Hapi.js. However, Hapi.js is also built on top of the http module.

For the rest of the exercises, from the first exercise of Chapter 3, Building the API...

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