Express offers something similar to organize/simplify your routing: var express = require('express'); var appRoot = express(); var appFoobar = expr

Express offers something similar to organize/simplify your routing: var express = require('express'); var appRoot = express(); var appFoobar = express(); appFoobar.get('/bar', function (req, res) { res.end('/foo/bar'); }); appRoot.use('/foo', appFoobar); appRoot.listen(process.env.PORT); $ curl localhost:3000/foo/bar /foo/bar $ As for "monkey patching", overwriting methods is often a bad idea. It may be better to use a new method to call upon the old one: Hapi.Server.prototype.routeAPI = function (routes) { if (!Array.isArray(routes)) routes = [ routes ]; routes = routes.map(function (route) { route.path = '/api' + route.path; return route; }); return this.route(routes); } Like nadadiv said, you could even have gone without recreating a Server() instance each time.