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Accelerating Server-Side Development with Fastify
Accelerating Server-Side Development with Fastify

Accelerating Server-Side Development with Fastify: A comprehensive guide to API development for building a scalable backend for your web apps

By Manuel Spigolon , Maksim Sinik , Matteo Collina
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Publication date : Jun 9, 2023
Length 406 pages
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Language : English
ISBN-13 : 9781800563582
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Accelerating Server-Side Development with Fastify

Part 1: Fastify Basics

In this part, you will learn about the framework’s essential features and the philosophy behind it, and embrace “the Fastify way” mindset to speed up your team’s development process, leveraging the unique plugin system it offers.

In this part, we cover the following chapters:

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Key benefits

  • Written by Fastify's core contributors to help you adopt the Fastify mindset for API development
  • Gain an architectural overview of Fastify’s microservices development capabilities and features
  • Build complete apps in Fastify, from application design to production

Description

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.

What you will learn

Explore the encapsulation techniques implemented by Fastify Understand how to deploy, monitor, and handle errors in a running Fastify instance Organize the project structure and implement a microservices architecture Explore Fastify’s core features such as code reuse, runtime speed, and much more Discover best practices for implementing Fastify in real-world RESTful apps Understand advanced backend development concepts such as performance monitoring and logging

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Table of Contents

21 Chapters
Preface Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
1. Part 1:Fastify Basics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
2. Chapter 1: What Is Fastify? Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
3. Chapter 2: The Plugin System and the Boot Process Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
4. Chapter 3: Working with Routes Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
5. Chapter 4: Exploring Hooks Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
6. Chapter 5: Exploring Validation and Serialization Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
7. Part 2:Build a Real-World Project Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
8. Chapter 6: Project Structure and Configuration Management Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
9. Chapter 7: Building a RESTful API Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
10. Chapter 8: Authentication, Authorization, and File Handling Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
11. Chapter 9: Application Testing Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
12. Chapter 10: Deployment and Process Monitoring for a Healthy Application Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
13. Chapter 11: Meaningful Application Logging Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
14. Part 3:Advanced Topics Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
15. Chapter 12: From a Monolith to Microservices Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
16. Chapter 13: Performance Assessment and Improvement Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
17. Chapter 14: Developing a GraphQL API Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
18. Chapter 15: Type-Safe Fastify Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
19. Index Chevron down icon Chevron up icon
20. Other Books You May Enjoy Chevron down icon Chevron up icon

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I’ve learned a lot of concepts about backend development. Concrete principles to feed your brain and thorough about the framework. It definitely convinced me to use Fastify or at least give a try.
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