Boilerplate Hapi Web and API Server Example
Create a base boilerplate example showing how easy it is to get started with Hapi as a web server.
Node.js - Because it's fast, easy to get started, and Javscript is awesome. http://nodejs.org/
Hapi - A very well designed server framework that is easy to understand, easy to create your own plugins, scales very well, cache options built in, and more. http://spumko.github.io/
Swig - It looks like HTML, it's very fast, great for template inheritance, and allows you to use HTML syntax with the server and with front-end client Javascript includes. http://paularmstrong.github.io/swig/
CSS Framework - None. Choose your own CSS preprocessor and CSS framework.
Install Node.js by using the big install button on the http://nodejs.org/ homepage.
After Node.js is installed clone this repo. Go into the cloned directory and run:
$ npm install
Start the server by running the command:
$ node server
To see any changes you can manually just shutdown and restart the node server. This can be a pain so I use Supervisor to watch for file changes and restart the server https://github.com/isaacs/node-supervisor.
To install run:
$ npm install -g supervisor
To use it run:
$ supervisor -e html,js server
Now all of your server html and js files are being watched and on change the node server gets restarted automatically.
One thing that I have done is added names to the routes. This allows you to have access to the path in the templates just by using the path.nameofroute variable. https://github.com/poeticninja/hapi-named-routes
There are two main folders in the stack. The "public" folder for front-end (client side) code, and "server" folder for server side code.
By having the front-end folder and server side folder be specific, it provides for better consistency when changing projects. This way when you change from a full front-end app (Phonegap), to a front-end and server side app you get to keep the same folder structure. Allowing for better consistency with your stack, projects, and tools.
This project is just getting started and will be moving very fast in a short amount of time.
Saul Maddox, You?
Credit goes to all of the source code, tutorials, and blogs that people have made available.
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