We are using Hapi as our API framework and put everything related to our persistent storage backend (mongo via mongoose) in a plugin. Now I am wondering how to best expose all the CRUD methods for the different collections (users, notifications, purchases, etc.) to our other API plugins.
I know about server.expose and server.method (Is that just server.expose with caching?) and just can't decide which I should go for in this case. Can you make a recommendation?
Much appreciated!
They are not the same thing.
server.expose is a way to read or update the exposed values of a plugin. Usually used for communicating state between plugins and/or the main Hapi app.
server.method is for exposing methods, and has an ecosystem for handling failure, and as you said, caching.
I think in this case, you would probably opt for server methods.