adyates / joyus-backend

An experiment in configurable backend design using Hapi

joyus-backend

An experiment in configurable backend design, starting off with Hapi

Why?

So the fun of any backend is figuring out how you are going to organizae your code so other people can mess around with it. Most backends have a couple of mental models in mind for dealing with stuff:

• Magical ORM, or some sort of persistence abstraction
• Request handlers
• Some form of API
• Sessions
• Integrations with 3rd party services
• Internal business logic services
• Ponies

And then you have testing:

• Unit testing simply services
• Mocking out requests
• Stubbing out the persistence layer
• Parallelism if you can swing it
• More Ponies

So, much like how fizzbuzz-the-musical is a place to mess around with a bunch of languages, joyus-backend is hopefully the place to experiment with a few backends to see what patterns emerge. Of course, it won't have the code throughput that a series of Fizz Buzz programs can do, it should hopefully be useful to... well, me at least.