Fastify

Fastify is a high-performance, low-overhead web framework for Node.js, designed to provide the best developer experience with a strong focus on speed and scalability. It aims to efficiently handle HTTP requests, offering a powerful plugin architecture and robust schema-based validation for…

Key facts

First appeared: 2017
Category: technology
Problem solved: Fastify was created to address the need for a highly performant and scalable Node.js web framework that offered a superior developer experience, particularly for building microservices and high-throughput APIs. Existing frameworks often compromised on raw speed or required extensive manual optimization to achieve comparable performance, leading to slower applications and increased development effort.
Platforms: macOS, Windows, Linux, Node.js Runtime

Related technologies

Docker
Node.js
Vue.js
Angular
TypeScript
PostgreSQL
React
JWT (JSON Web Tokens)
Redis
Kubernetes
MongoDB

Notable users

Various companies using Node.js for high-performance microservices and APIs
NearForm
Platformatic