Fastify, Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js

It’s been a while since I’ve set up a server with Node, but turns out Fastify is preferred over Express nowadays.

Fastify is a web framework highly focused on providing the best developer experience with the least overhead and a powerful plugin architecture. It is inspired by Hapi and Express and as far as we know, it is one of the fastest web frameworks in town.

import Fastify from 'fastify';
const fastify = Fastify({ logger: true });

fastify.get('/', async (request, reply) => {
  return { hello: 'world' };
});

const start = async () => {
  try {
    await fastify.listen(3000);
  } catch (err) {
    fastify.log.error(err);
    process.exit(1);
  }
}
start();

Apart from the core there are lots of plugins for authentication, cors, forms, cookies, jwt tokens, etc.

Fastify, Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js →