A Hapi Ninja for Node.js

Earlier this year we had Eran Hammer on the podcast to talk about the success of Node.js at Walmart for the infamous influx of traffic that Black Friday brings them. At the core of their success lies Hapi, the rich framework for building web applications and services with Node from Walmart Labs.

Hapi is a lot like Sinatra for Ruby in the fact that you start with a single server file and expand as needed from there to create a file and directory structure to organize and support your application code.

While hacking on Hapi recently, I found Hapi Ninja. If you're just getting started like me, Hapi Ninja can serve as a boilerplate to learn from with Hapi, or even as the starting point for your Node web service.

It was also a pleasant surprise to see Saul Maddox was a native Houston Texan like myself. Sadly we've never met.