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Accelerating Server-Side Development with Fastify

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Product type Book
Published in Jun 2023
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781800563582
Pages 406 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Authors (3):
Manuel Spigolon Manuel Spigolon
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Maksim Sinik Maksim Sinik
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Matteo Collina Matteo Collina
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Table of Contents (21) Chapters

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

Generating the API documentation

The OpenAPI specification is a widely adopted and open standard for documenting RESTful APIs. It provides a format for describing the structure and operations of an API in a machine-readable format, allowing developers to understand and interact with the API quickly.

The specification defines a set of JSON or YAML files that describe an API’s endpoints, parameters, responses, and other details. This information can be used to generate API documentation, client libraries, and other tools that make it easier to work with the API.

Swagger and OpenAPI specifications

Swagger and OpenAPI are two related specifications, with OpenAPI being the newer version of Swagger. Swagger was originally an open source project, but later, the specification was acquired by SmartBear and renamed to OpenAPI. Today, the OpenAPI initiative, a consortium of industry leaders, maintains the specification. Swagger is also known as OpenAPI v2, while only OpenAPI generally...

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