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Accelerating Server-Side Development with Fastify

You're reading from   Accelerating Server-Side Development with Fastify A comprehensive guide to API development for building a scalable backend for your web apps

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800563582
Length 406 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Maksim Sinik Maksim Sinik
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Matteo Collina Matteo Collina
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Part 1:Fastify Basics
2. Chapter 1: What Is Fastify? FREE CHAPTER 3. Chapter 2: The Plugin System and the Boot Process 4. Chapter 3: Working with Routes 5. Chapter 4: Exploring Hooks 6. Chapter 5: Exploring Validation and Serialization 7. Part 2:Build a Real-World Project
8. Chapter 6: Project Structure and Configuration Management 9. Chapter 7: Building a RESTful API 10. Chapter 8: Authentication, Authorization, and File Handling 11. Chapter 9: Application Testing 12. Chapter 10: Deployment and Process Monitoring for a Healthy Application 13. Chapter 11: Meaningful Application Logging 14. Part 3:Advanced Topics
15. Chapter 12: From a Monolith to Microservices 16. Chapter 13: Performance Assessment and Improvement 17. Chapter 14: Developing a GraphQL API 18. Chapter 15: Type-Safe Fastify 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Working with Routes

Applications would not exist without routes. Routes are the doors to those clients that need to consume your API. In this chapter, we will present more examples, focusing on how to become more proficient at managing routes and keeping track of all our endpoints. We will cover all the possibilities that Fastify offers to define new endpoints and manage the application without giving you a headache.

It is worth mentioning that Fastify supports async/await handlers out of the box, and it is crucial to understand its implications. You will look at the difference between sync and async handlers, and you will learn how to avoid the major pitfalls. Furthermore, we will learn how to handle URL parameters, the HTTP request’s body input, and query strings too.

Finally, you will understand how the router works in Fastify, and you will be able to control the routing to your application’s endpoint as never before.

In this chapter, we will cover the following...

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