Accelerating Server-Side Development with Fastify
Packt Publishing Limited (Verlag)
978-1-80056-358-2 (ISBN)
Purchase of the print or Kindle book includes a free PDF eBook
Key Features
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
Book DescriptionThis 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
Who this book is forThis book is for mid to expert-level backend web developers who have already used other backend web frameworks and are familiar with HTTP protocol and its peculiarities. Developers looking to migrate to Fastify, evaluate its suitability for their next project, avoid architecture pitfalls, and build highly responsive and maintainable API servers will also find this book useful. The book assumes knowledge of JavaScript programming, Node.js, and backend development.
Manuel Spigolon is a Senior Backend Developer at Near Form. He is one of core maintainers on the Fastiy team. Manuel has developed and maintained a complex API that serves more than 10 millions world wide. Maksim Sinik is a senior engineering manager and a core maintainer of the Fastify framework. He has a decade of experience as a Node.js developer with a strong interest in backend scalability. He designed the architecture and led the development of several service-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms across multiple industries that process hundreds of thousands of requests. Matteo Collina is the co-founder and CTO of Platformatic who has the goal of removing all friction from backend development. He is also a prolific open source author in the JavaScript ecosystem, and the modules he maintains are downloaded more than 17 billion times a year. Previously, he was the chief software architect at NearForm, the best professional services company in the JavaScript ecosystem. In 2014, he defended his Ph.D. thesis titled Application Platforms for the Internet of Things. Matteo is a member of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee, focusing on streams, diagnostics, and HTTP. He is also the author of the fast logger, Pino, and the Fastify web framework. Matteo is a renowned international speaker after more than 60 conferences, including OpenJS World, Node.js Interactive, NodeConf.eu, NodeSummit, JSConf.Asia, WebRebels, and JsDay, to name just a few. Since August 2023, he also serves as a community director on the OpenJS Foundation. In the summer, he loves sailing the Sirocco.
Table of Contents
What is Fastify?
The Plugin System and the Boot Process
Working with Routes
Exploring Hooks
Exploring Validation and Serialization
Project Structure and Configuration Management
Building a RESTful API
Authentication, Authorization, and File Handling
Application Testing
Deployment and Process monitoring for a healthy application
Meaningful Application logging
From a Monolith to Microservices
Performance Assessment and Improvement
Developing a GraphQL API
Type-Safe Fastify
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.07.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Birmingham |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 191 x 235 mm |
| Themenwelt | Informatik ► Software Entwicklung ► SOA / Web Services |
| Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Web / Internet | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-80056-358-2 / 1800563582 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-80056-358-2 / 9781800563582 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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