Introduction to

By Mark Wolfe

What is hapi?

• Built on top of Node.JS
• Developed by a team at Walmart Labs
• Out of the box it includes:
• Authentication
• Validation
• Caching
• Batching
• And more..

Auth

• Out of the box supports:
• Basic
• Cookie
• Also includes Hawk
• MAC based authetication
• passport.js plugin in the works.
• OAuth for GitHub, Twitter..

Validation

• Stand alone validation library
• Validates JSON Data
• Type checking Strings, Numbers, Array
• Required/Optional
• Check against a list of values
• API enables grouping of validations into schemas

Caching

• Caching and Prefetch hooks
• Rule based
• Provides engines for:
• Memory (Experimental)
• Redis
• MongoDB

Monitoring

• Request Logging
• System and process performance
• General events
• Can be written to:
• Console
• File
• HTTP

Testing

• Request injection
• Doesn't require socket connection
• Libraries I use to test:
• mocha
• sinon.js
• chai

Batching

• Invoke a batch of operations
• Designed for use within mobile applications
• Mobile networks SUCK
• Trains
• Large events
• Similar boost to combining assets

Interesting Features

• Request Tails
• Executed after response completion
• Asyncronis
• Good for idempotent operations
• Per route cache configuration
• Live request debugging

Observations

• New framework
• Modular reusable components
• API is still a moving target (1.0 soon)
• Open to contributions
• Prepare to read the code
• Documentation needs more examples

Questions?

• Links
• http://hapijs.com
• http://hueniverse.com/
• @wolfeidau on twitter and github