hapi-context-app

hapi.js plugin - Include request.server.settings.app in default view context.

Install

npm install --save hapi-context-app

Background

For pretty much any website with app config (title, etc), it's handy to have that info in a view.

Instead of having to add request.server.settings.app to every route like so:

handler: function (request, reply) {
    ...
    reply.view('index', {
        app: request.server.settings.app
    });
}

And in my template I might have something like:

<h1>{{app.siteName}}</h1>

This module saves the work by ensuring request.server.settings.app is included in every view context on your server, so you don't need to manually include it in your handlers.

Usage

Just register like any Hapi plugin:

server.register(require('hapi-context-app'), (err) => {
 
    if (err) {
        throw err;
    }
 
    server.start(function (err) {
 
        if (err) {
            throw err;
        }
        console.log('Server started!');
    });
});

You can then output app in your views.

Credit

The idea for this plugin came from https://github.com/hapijs/hapi/issues/2419. Credit to @ubaltaci for the preResponse handler idea.

Original source code came from https://github.com/mtharrison/hapi-context-credentials. Credit to Matt Harrison.

hapi-context-app by Robin Millette