Node.js - Because it's fast, easy to get started, and JavaScript is awesome. http://nodejs.org/
Hapi - A very well designed server framework that is easy to understand, easy to create your own plugins, scales very well, cache options built in, and more. http://hapijs.com/
Install Node.js by using the big install button on the http://nodejs.org/ homepage.
After Node.js is installed, clone this repo, change cd to this directory, and run npm install
Start the server by running the command:
$ node server
To see any changes you can manually just shutdown and restart the node server. This can be a pain so I use Supervisor to watch for file changes and restart the server https://github.com/isaacs/node-supervisor.
To install run:
$ npm install -g supervisor
To use it run:
$ supervisor -e js server
Now all of your server js files are being watched and on change the node server gets restarted automatically.
You can run the linter with the project's
shared configuration by
running gulp lint. The goal of linting the project is to keep a standard
coding style, please be sure to run it on all PRs!