Readme Topics

Hapi Plugins

• What are Hapi plugins and how are they important to the architecture of Hapi?
• What are the key features of Hapi plugins and how would you go about writing a plugin?
• What are the pros and cons of designing / building your app using plugins?

Authentication

(we'll be covering this topic in much more depth next week but for now just an introduction to it!)

• What is authentication and why do we need it when building web applications?
• What are authentication schemes and strategies?
• What are some of the different ways Hapi implements authentication?
• How would you use Hapi auth basic? (write a short tutorial)

Validation

• What is validation and why is it important (absolutely critical)?
• What is Joi and how would you use it with Hapi?
• Find some example situations where you'd use Joi
• Set up some validation schemas for these examples

Templating

• What is a templating engine and why would you use it?
• What is Handlebars.js?
• Write some examples of how you'd use Handlebars
• What are the advantages of using server side rendering vs rendering dynamic content on the client?
• How would you use Hapi's views interface to serve dynamic content?