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Accelerating Server-Side Development with Fastify

By : Manuel Spigolon, Maksim Sinik, Matteo Collina
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Book Image

Accelerating Server-Side Development with Fastify

4.5 (2)
By: Manuel Spigolon, Maksim Sinik, Matteo Collina

Overview of this book

This book is a complete guide to server-side app development in Fastify, written by the core contributors of this highly performant plugin-based web framework. Throughout the book, you’ll discover how it fosters code reuse, thereby improving your time to market. Starting with an introduction to Fastify’s fundamental concepts, this guide will lead you through the development of a real-world project while providing in-depth explanations of advanced topics to prepare you to build highly maintainable and scalable backend applications. The book offers comprehensive guidance on how to design, develop, and deploy RESTful applications, including detailed instructions for building reusable components that can be leveraged across multiple projects. The book presents guidelines for creating efficient, reliable, and easy-to-maintain real-world applications. It also offers practical advice on best practices, design patterns, and how to avoid common pitfalls encountered by developers while building backend applications. By following these guidelines and recommendations, you’ll be able to confidently design, implement, deploy, and maintain an application written in Fastify, and develop plugins and APIs to contribute to the Fastify and open source communities.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
1
Part 1:Fastify Basics
7
Part 2:Build a Real-World Project
14
Part 3:Advanced Topics

How to use Fastify’s logger

Application logging is one of the pillars of application observability. It provides useful information to understand what the system is doing and narrow down where the bug arises. A good logging setup has the following qualities:

  • Consolidate: This sends the logs to a designated output.
  • Structure: This provides a format to query and analyze over text messages.
  • Context: This adds metadata based on the execution environment.
  • Security: This applies filter and data reduction to hide sensitive information.
  • Verbosity: This sets the log severity based on the environment. Unfortunately, logging is not free, as it costs the system’s resources, so we can’t just log everything without impacting the application’s performance.

Generally, you can easily understand whether application logs are implemented correctly or not. But you should never underestimate the importance of logging.

In fact, when you are having...