When attempting to upgrade to latest Hapi.js (9.x) we get: Error: Unknown handler: directory

Question

Just tried updating to the latest version of Hapi.js but getting error for directory handler ...

We are using hapi.js to serve a directory in our static-server.js see: https://github.com/dwyl/learn-tdd/blob/5b132bfe5e1787b684ff44eadaf8b53438449323/static-server.js#L3

The directory handler worked fine in hapi 8.x but in 9.0.1 we get the error:

Error: Unknown handler: directory

We've tried searching on the Hapi.js Route API: http://hapijs.com/api#route-handler but have not found the directory handler ... was it removed in the latest release? The "old" version of Hapi.js had: http://hapijs.com/api/8.8.1#route-handler

full stack trace: https://github.com/dwyl/learn-tdd/issues/22

Answer 1

The inert plugin needs to be included manually in version 9 (release notes: https://github.com/hapijs/hapi/issues/2682 ). Add it as a plugin using server.register

follow the instructions on https://www.npmjs.com/package/inert#examples eg:

var Hapi = require('hapi');
var Inert = require('inert');
var Path = require('path');
var server = new Hapi.Server();
var port = process.env.PORT || 8000;
server.register(Inert, function () {
  server.connection({ port: port });
  server.route( {
    method: 'GET',
    path: '/{param*}',
    handler: {
      directory: { path: Path.normalize(__dirname + '/') }
    }
  });
  server.start(function() { console.log('Visit: http://127.0.0.1:' +port)   });
});