While implementing the first routes of your REST API, you noticed that requesting all shows returns ALL shows. With a growing set of TV shows, your API response will grow respectively. To reduce the amount of outgoing JSON data, implement pagination and let users fetch data when needed. To continue […]
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While creating the Futureflix API, you noticed that the JSON representation of documents contains the _id and version key __v. The _id field feels wrong due to the underscore prefix, so let’s remove it and keep only the id field. The version key __v isn’t necessary in the response at […]
At some point you want to expand your platform from browsers to other clients. This could be native apps for Android and iOS. Or you want to shift gears and level up your web frontend with a client-side framework that communicates via JSON data instead of HTML. This is the […]
Every app needs some kind of search. Serving content comes with the need to make it visible and what fits better than a full text search. Because Futureflix uses MongoDB as its data store, you’ll implement a full text search on top of it. Starting in version 3.2, MongoDB ships […]
You’ve limited time to spend on watching movies and TV shows. You can’t watch everything at once. A watchlist is a space to save movies and shows for later. Once you finished the current show (or movie), pick the next one from your watchlist. If you’re like me and can’t […]
Pagination is an essential part of web applications to split large data sets into chunks. Pagination is like the penguins in the Madagascar movie: a secret star. You couldn’t live with it while having a minor role in the play. With growing data sets in your Futureflix app, you don’t […]
You added a profile editing screen in the previous tutorial. This profile editing view lets users update their personal username and homepage. Up to this point, each user has a blank profile after signing up. Following this tutorial, you’ll generate a username based on the user’s email address when saving […]
During the last weeks, you made tremendous progress on “learn hapi” and your Futureflix app grows in functionality. Up to this point, you rely on hapi’s built-in security mechanisms. We didn’t care about adding custom protection yet (which is totally fine). That changes now and it’s what you’ll tackle in […]
You probably follow along this “learn hapi” learning path and your Futureflix app already contains a sign up and login to onboard users. But there’s no personal user area. Users can’t edit their information in a profile editing screen, yet. At the end of this tutorial you’ll have this functionality […]
Using Gravatar for profile pictures feels like the snake game on Nokia phones. You know, the Nokia phones that are still charged if you’d find one in your winter jacket 😄 The older Nokia phones with model names like “Nokia 3210” used to have a game installed called “snake”. You […]