makemehapi/exercises/routes/solution/solution.js

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const Hapi = require('@hapi/hapi');

(async () => {
  try {
    const server = Hapi.Server({
      host: 'localhost',
      port: Number(process.argv[2] || 8080)
    });

    server.route({
      path: '/{name}',
      method: 'GET',
      handler (request, h) {
        return `Hello ${request.params.name}`;

        // a more secure alternative is this:
        //
        // return `Hello ${encodeURIComponent(request.params.name)}`;
        //
        // encodeURIComponent escapes all characters except the following: alphabetic, decimal digits, - _ . ! ~ * ' ( )
        // see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/encodeURIComponent
        // for more details why you should call encodeURIComponent on any user-entered parameter
      }
    });

    await server.start();

    console.log(`Server running at: ${server.info.uri}`);
  } catch (error) {
    console.log(error);
  }
})();