Express vs hapi

express-hapi.js

// GETTING STARTED:

// Express
var express = require('express');
var app = express();

app.get('/', function(req, res){
  res.send('hello world');
});

app.listen(3000);

// hapi
var Hapi = require('hapi');
var server = new Hapi.Server();
server.connection({ port: 3000 });

server.route({
  path: '/',
  method: 'GET',
  handler: function (request, reply) {
    reply('hello world');
  }
});

server.start(function (err) {
  // server running on port 3000
});

// MIDDLEWARE CONCEPT
// express
// before app.listen
app.use(function (req, res, next) {
  console.log('Time: %d', Date.now());
  next();
})

// hapi
// before server.start
server.register({
  register: require('./path/to/plugin')
}, function (err) {
  if (err) console.error(err); // Plugin failed to load
});

// plugin file
exports.register = function (server, options, next) {
  console.log('Time: %d', Date.now());
  next();
};

exports.register.attributes = {
  name: 'basicExample',
  version: '1.0.0'
};

hi shakefon - you sent this gist from IRC about a week ago to help me pick up hapi. (thanks again for that!)

I think your Hapi middleware analog should use plugin.ext('onRequest', function(request, next) {}) instead of just the console.log (which would only run initially upon server start, as opposed to for every request as middleware sorta implies).