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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

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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

Testing our Docker image with a local deployment

In Chapter 6, we set up our application for usage with Docker. This is a critical step for our TODO List application. Now, it’s time to test the image with Docker Compose to verify that everything is working as expected.

Let’s recap our DockerFile, with a minor modification:

FROM node:18-alpine as builder
WORKDIR /build
COPY package.json ./
COPY package-lock.json ./
ARG NPM_TOKEN
ENV NPM_TOKEN $NPM_TOKEN
RUN npm ci --only=production --ignore-scripts
FROM node:18-alpine
RUN apk update && apk add --no-cache dumb-init
ENV HOME=/home/app
ENV APP_HOME=$HOME/node/
ENV NODE_ENV=production
WORKDIR $APP_HOME
COPY --chown=node:node . $APP_HOME
COPY --chown=node:node --from=builder /build $APP_HOME
USER node
EXPOSE 3000
ENTRYPOINT ["dumb-init"]
CMD ["./node_modules/.bin/fastify", "start", "-a", "0.0.0.0", "-l", "info", "--options", &quot...