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Hapi.js – Gatekeepers at Its Finest
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I come from a C# background, but to list out a few hurdles that I have already deal with with TypeScript/NodeJs. 1. C#'s AsyncLocal has made a few things simpler to trace SQL…
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| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 4 | 1 | 3 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 5 | 3 | 2 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 3 | 3 | 0 |
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2 points · Open discussionI come from a C# background, but to list out a few hurdles that I have already deal with with TypeScript/NodeJs.
1. C#'s AsyncLocal has made a few things simpler to trace SQL queries to a request.
2. We chose to use hapi.js some 2 years ago, because we found the interface superior to Express, but I did not expect the sole developer of hapi.js to decide stop working on the project [1], and left my head scratching on what I am going to do about that.
3. TypeScript's interface sometimes feels too much like just "suggestions", and every once in a while run across scenarios that are not fully supported. One that I really dislike is that Sequelize's "where" options has no type support for the model. [2]
4. Sometimes libraries does not use async correctly, and breaks stack traces.
5. Sometimes TypeScript's generic errors can be as ba
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d as C++.
My favorite feature of TypeScript is being able to just define types/objects in-line, but I actually like to stay on the side of caution and stability on a large project with many people.
[1] https://github.com/hapijs/hapi/issues/4111
[2] (GitHub is down, or I would grab the link)
Express.js active development seems to stop. The last commit on v5 branch was from October 2018. We are still waiting for http2 (2 years) or better support for promises (3 years).
https://github.com/expressjs/express/tree/5.0
https://github.com/expressjs/express/pull/4196
https://github.com/expressjs/express/issues/2761
If someone is doing a new project in node I would recommend:
https://github.com/fastify/fastify
https://github.com/hapijs/hapi
In the above benchmark, fastify would probably narrow the gap.
https://www.fastify.io/benchmarks/
In ExpressJS vs. Actix-Web: performance and running cost comparisonThis link goes to the main Hapi.js website which doesn't really explain much about what's new in v17. From the release notes [0]:
"hapi v17.0.0 is a major new version of the framework.... The main change and the motivation for this release is replacing callbacks with a fully async/await interface."
I've never used Hapi.js before, but since hearing about how "async/await" support has been implemented I'm definitely going to look into it more.
[0] - https://github.com/hapijs/hapi/issues/3658
In Hapi.js – v17As a user, I'd much rather Eran hold on to control until he finds 3-4 people that he absolutely trusts. Saying no to the 90% of bad ideas and non-issues is one of most difficult and disciplined tasks of maintainership of this type of project. That's coming from someone who recently opened one such non-issue (though my PR was merged to my surprise[1]).
1. https://github.com/hapijs/hapi/pull/3380
In On Funding Hapi.js Core DevelopmentHapi 12.0 a Node Framework Used by Big Companies in Production
4 points · Open discussionAt first I was like, "oh another node framework"
Then I saw a point where they were using hapijs in their module:
https://github.com/hapijs/hapi
That is giving me a small motivation to try some of my future weekend projects with Trails.
In Trails – Modern MVC Web Framework for Node.jsIf IBM screws ExpressJS up (wishfully not), Hapi[1] is a good alternative.
https://github.com/hapijs/hapi
In What the IBM Acquisition of StrongLoop Means for the Node.js Community