005 Saul Maddox, Software Engineer at PROS, shares insights about his Hapi-Ninja boilerplate and its technology (Node.js, Hapijs web framework, Swig, Gulp)

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Saul Maddox, a software engineer for PROS, joins me in this episode of CodeWinds to discuss his Hapi-Ninja boilerplate which helps developers get up and running with the Hapi Node.js web framework.

We discuss in detail the stack he has chosen and the reasons for selecting each:

• Hapijs Node.js web framework
• Swig templates
• Gulp javascript streaming task runner
• Plugins he has included for assets and routes

Saul explains the file structure of Hapi-Ninja mentioning how to configure and get up and running with Hapi quickly and easily.

1. Episode Info
2. Episode Notes
   1. Episode timeline
3. Getting started with Hapi-Ninja
4. Links from Show
   1. Following Saul Maddox

Episode Info

• Episode: CW 005
• Published: April 7th, 2014
• Tags: js, nodejs,web,framework,boilerplate
• Duration: 34:17

Episode Notes

Episode timeline

• 02:06 - Introduction to the Hapi-Ninja boilerplate
• 05:44 - Details of Hapi-Ninja stack
• 06:00 - Hapi Node.js web framework
• 08:34 - Swig javascript templates
• 11:17 - Gulp Node.js streaming task runner
• 13:52 - Getting started with Hapi-Ninja boilerplate
• 14:44 - Using a watcher like node-supervisor to auto reload
• 15:47 - Hapi-Ninja file structure
• 18:38 - Configuration
• 18:55 - Hapi-Assets plugin for minimizing and concatenating assets
• 21:42 - Hapi-Named-Routes plugin
• 23:31 - Hapi-Cache Buster plugin for easier browser reloading in development
• 25:26 - Easy switching from full frontend app (PhoneGap) to a frontend and server using same folder structure
• 27:02 - Hapi-Ninja code is commented heavily to help new users learn
• 27:41 - Upgrading from Hapi 2.x to 3.x
• 28:37 - Contributing
• 30:08 - Other projects
• 30:25 - Ever Stain project - legacy website for being remembered
• 32:16 - Following Saul

Getting started with Hapi-Ninja

• Install Nodejs
• Clone repo from GitHub
• Change working directory into the new path
• Install dependencies from npm

# after installing Node.js git clone https://github.com/poeticninja/hapi-ninja.git cd hapi-ninja npm install

Links from Show

• Hapi-Ninja boilerplate GitHub Repo
• Hapijs Node.js web framework
• Swig templates
• Gulp javascript streaming task runner
• Hapi-Named-Routes plugin for using named routes
• Hapi-Assets plugin for automatically minimizing and concatenating assets
• Hapi-Cache-Buster plugin which helps with serving fresh content in development
• Ever Stain legacy website coming soon by Saul Maddox. How will you be remembered?

Following Saul Maddox

• Saul Maddox GitHub
• Saul Maddox Twitter