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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

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...