Basic server setup using JSON

In Chapter 7, Alternate Implementations of JSON, we already scaffolded a Node server while we worked on the template embedding section. We can either modify it or create a new app. If you are planning to use the same app, you need to do the following:

• Modify the app.js
• Eliminate template-related implementation

After modification, we get following structure in our code base:

Just to get a brief idea about the preceding code, we created a simple HTTP server. The createServer method contains the request parameters req to handle the incoming request and the response instance for the outgoing response to and from the server respectively. We are using the end method of the response object to send response data as Hello readers to the client.

Let's go through proper stepwise procedure as shown as follows:

1. First let us install the hapi framework using the following command; we install a version greater than or equal to v17.x.x. By default, the package manager will install...