Fastify
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Fastify is a web framework highly focused on speed and low overhead. It is inspired from Hapi and Express and as far as we know, it is one of the fastest web frameworks in town. Use Fastify can increase your throughput up to 100%.
Fastify is a tool in the Microframeworks category of a tech stack.
Key Features
100% asynchronous: all the core is implemented with asynchronous code, in this way not even a millisecond is wasted.Highly performant: as far as we know, Fastify is one of the fastest web frameworks in town, depending on the code complexity we can serve up to 20000 request per second.Extendible: Fastify is fully extensible via its hooks, plugins and decorators.Schema based: even if it is not mandatory we recommend to use JSON Schema to validate your routes and serialize your outputs, internally Fastify compiles the schema in an highly performant function.Logging: logs are extremely important but are costlywe chose the best logger to almost remove this cost, Pino!Developer friendly: the framework is built to be very expressive and help the developer in his daily use, without sacrificing performance and security.
Fastify Pros & Cons
Pros of Fastify
- ✓Performance
- ✓Easy to use
- ✓Lightweight
- ✓Middleware
- ✓Open source
- ✓Highly customizable
- ✓Built-in Typescript support
- ✓Decorators
- ✓Developer friendly
- ✓Low overhead
Cons of Fastify
- ✗Small community
Fastify Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Fastify?
ExpressJS
Express is a minimal and flexible node.js web application framework, providing a robust set of features for building single and multi-page, and hybrid web applications.
Flask
Flask is intended for getting started very quickly and was developed with best intentions in mind.
Django REST framework
It is a powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.
FastAPI
It is a modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.
