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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

Product type Paperback

Published in Jun 2023

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781800563582

Length 406 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

JavaScript

Tools

Fastify

Concepts

Server Side Web Development

Authors (3):

Maksim Sinik

Matteo Collina

Manuel Spigolon

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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

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

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20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Summary

In this chapter, we learned one of the Fastify concepts that make it different from most web frameworks. Even if it might be a new concept to many developers, mastering hooks will unleash the path to highly performant, maintainable, and reusable application components. In fact, contrary to middleware, when we define a hook, we are guaranteed that our code is executed only when it makes sense, boosting the application’s performance. Furthermore, having a well-defined order of execution can help with debugging and runtime checking.

In the next chapter, we will learn how to make user inputs safe and speed up our server thanks to validation and serialization.

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Authors (3)

Manuel Spigolon

Manuel Spigolon

Manuel Spigolon is a senior backend developer at NearForm. He is one of the core maintainers on the Fastify team. Manuel has developed and maintained a complex API that serves millions of users worldwide. He is a conference speaker and content writer at the Backend Cafe blog.

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Matteo Collina

Matteo Collina

Matteo Collina is the co-founder and CTO of Platformatic who has the goal of removing all friction from backend development. He is also a prolific open source author in the JavaScript ecosystem, and the modules he maintains are downloaded more than 17 billion times a year. Previously, he was the chief software architect at NearForm, the best professional services company in the JavaScript ecosystem. In 2014, he defended his Ph.D. thesis titled Application Platforms for the Internet of Things. Matteo is a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, focusing on streams, diagnostics, and HTTP. He is also the author of the fast logger, Pino, and the Fastify web framework. Matteo is a renowned international speaker after more than 60 conferences, including OpenJS World, Node.js Interactive, NodeConf.eu, NodeSummit, JSConf.Asia, WebRebels, and JsDay, to name just a few. Since August 2023, he also serves as a community director on the OpenJS Foundation. In the summer, he loves sailing the Sirocco.

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Maksim Sinik

Maksim Sinik

Maksim Sinik is a senior engineering manager and a core maintainer of the Fastify framework. He has a decade of experience as a Node.js developer with a strong interest in backend scalability. He designed the architecture and led the development of several service-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms across multiple industries that process hundreds of thousands of requests.

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