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Accelerating Server-Side Development with Fastify

By : Manuel Spigolon, Maksim Sinik, Matteo Collina
4.5 (2)
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 improve resolver performance?

If we log every SQL query hitting our database when we run the GQL request in Figure 14.4, we will count an impressive amount of 18 queries! To do so, you can update the SQLite plugin configuration to the following:

  const app = Fastify({ logger: { level: 'trace' } })
  await app.register(require('fastify-sqlite'), {
    verbose: true,
    promiseApi: true
  })

With the new configuration, you will be able to see all the SQL executions that have been run during the resolution of the GQL request, and you will see a lot of duplicated queries too:

Figure 14.5 – All SQL queries run by the family resolver

Figure 14.5 – All SQL queries run by the family resolver

This issue is called the N+1 problem, which ruins the service performance and wastes many server resources. For sure, a GraphQL server aims to provide simplicity over complexity. It deprecates the writing of big SQL queries...