Server Composition using Glue?

[nelsonic]

What are the advantages of using glue ? https://github.com/hapijs/glue

[simon-p-r]

Makes it easier to compose a comprehensive server with multiple connections and numerous plugins. It also exposes access to the server creation life cycle via pre connections and the pre plugins methods.

[nelsonic]

@simon-p-r right, but how many people/teams/projects deploying hapi Apps/APIs are actually _using_ glue...?
I'm happy to write up a section on glue but would like to gauge how popular its likely to be...

There were 190k downloads of hapi in the past month:

But only 11k downloads for glue ... that means fewer than _6% of hapi projects_ ...

I'm actually a big fan of the declarative style of defining an application in a manifest.json file.
But I'm not a fan of forcing beginners to learn _another_ thing before they can contribute to a project or be productive in their work.

Hence my question: who is _using_ glue...?

[vdeturckheim]

I make a large use of glue in one of my personal project right now. My back-end app is organized in small components (managed through npm) such as 'auth', 'team and private messaging', 'db management', ...
My final server is actually only composed of a manifest.json and a package.json. I compose it with rejoice and that's all.
I also use glue in each module to forge a server as I need it for testing purpose.

However I do agree it is not a necessary tool for beginners, except, maybe, to promote the idea of composing a hapi server as a collection of, as independents as possible, modules.

At the end of the day glue is just a way to assemble the pieces of a bigger construction in a clearer way than through coding it together (link may die when branch v3 is merged in master in glue repo)

[nelsonic]

@vdt can you share link to the personal project you are describing, or is it private?

[vdeturckheim]

@nelsonic it is actually private (gitlab.com + npm private plan) :/ I'll try to provide examples this week-end in a github repo.

[nelsonic]

Ah... GitLab. fair enough.
if you can that would be sweet. thanks.

[vdeturckheim]

I'll do my best ;) It's definitely on my bucket list.

[vdeturckheim]

@nelsonic You can take a look at sticky and its plugins. Let me know if you have any comments or questions regarding this.

[FullStackForger]

Great question @nelsonic! And thanks a lot for the code example @vdeturckheim.