index.js

/**
 * New Hapi server.
 */

const Hapi = require('hapi');
const server = new Hapi.Server();

/**
 * External dependencies.
 * We just need the template engine
 * (for now).
 */

const ejs = require('ejs');

/**
 * Register inside a constant
 * the external plugins and
 * our custom APIs.
 */

const plugins = [
  require('vision'),
  require('./apis/users'),
  require('./apis/tweets')
];

/**
 * Create a new Hapi connection.
 * Use process environment variables
 * if present. If not, define them.
 */

server.connection({
  host: process.env.HOST || process.env.HOSTNAME ||'localhost',
  port: process.env.PORT || 1337
});

/**
 * Register our plugins.
 * When this is done,
 * configure the views engine
 * and start the server.
 */

server.register(plugins, err => {
  if (err) {
    throw new Error(err);
  }

  server.views({
    engines: {
      ejs: ejs
    },
    relativeTo: __dirname,
    path: 'views'
  });

  server.start(err => {
    if (err) {
      throw new Error(err);
    }
    console.log('Server running at:', server.info.uri);
  });
});