{"id":2525,"date":"2017-02-08T08:23:02","date_gmt":"2017-02-08T08:23:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/?p=2525"},"modified":"2018-12-18T02:13:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T10:13:40","slug":"develop-a-rest-api-with-couchbase-ottoman-nodejs-hapijs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.couchbase.com\/blog\/develop-a-rest-api-with-couchbase-ottoman-nodejs-hapijs\/","title":{"rendered":"Develop a REST API with Couchbase Ottoman + Node.js + hapi.js"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"JoseJose Navarro<\/span><\/a> is a full stack developer at FAMOCO in Brussels, Belgium. He has been working for the last 3 years as a web <\/span>developer<\/span><\/a> with Node.js, Java, AngularJS, and ReactJS, and has deep interest in web development and mobile technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n

Introduction<\/span><\/h2>\n

We are going to develop a REST API using Node.js and Couchbase ODM Ottoman. There are a few frameworks to do this in Node.js, so we are going to use hapi.js, which makes it easy to start and develop an API, and its code is clean and easy to understand. It also provides a validator in the request so we can integrate well with the Ottoman model, which we are going to use so we can abstract our code and work with objects.<\/span><\/p>\n

Requirements<\/span><\/h2>\n

To build the project, you need to have the following installed on your computer:<\/span><\/p>\n