Fastify Explained

Fastify
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Developer:Platformatic, OpenJS and others
Platform:Node.js
Programming Language:JavaScript
License:MIT License
Genre:Web framework

Fastify is a performance-oriented backend web framework for Node.js, released as free and open-source software under an MIT License. Its development was inspired by Hapi and Express.[1]

As a lightweight alternative to other Node.js web API frameworks,[2] [3] benchmarks reveal it to be significantly faster.[4]

History

Fastify was conceived by Matteo Collina while working at NearForm in 2015. Collina and Tomas Della Vedova created Fastify in September 2016.[5] According to GitHub, the initial release of Fastify was version 0.1.0 on October 17, 2016.[6]

Building upon the technical foundations of Fastify, Collina and Luca Maraschi created Platformatic in 2022, to support a "batteries-included" developer experience for building APIs (REST/OpenAPI or GraphQL).[7] [8]

In 2023, Accelerating Server-Side Development with Fastify, a comprehensive guide authored by Fastify core contributors, was published.[9]

Features

Core features include:

Popularity

Fastify is used by Capital One, Walmart, American Express[5] and others.[10]

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: mdy . Fastify home page . 2024-11-20.
  2. Web site: Dindi . Sandra . 2023-03-22 . mdy . 5 Node.js Packages to Build Your Next API . MakeUseOf . 2024-11-20.
  3. Web site: Mulders . Michiel . 2020-10-19 . mdy . How to Create Your First REST API with Fastify . . 2024-11-20.
  4. Web site: Lawson . Loraine . 2023-10-11 . mdy . A Showdown Between Express.js and Fastify Web App Frameworks . The New Stack . 2024-11-20.
  5. Web site: Collina . Matteo . 2023-05-17 . mdy . A tale of community: How the quest for better performance led to Fastify and grew into Platformatic . Blog . Platformatic . 2024-11-19 . A few months later, in June 2016, while delivering a Node.js training course at Avanscoperta in Bologna, an attendee asked me how to get started working in Open Source. His name was Tomas Della Vedova, and by the end of the course, I asked him if he wanted to build this Node.js framework with me. By September, we landed the first commit of what would later become Fastify..
  6. Web site: mdy . Release v0.1.0 . fastify/fastify . . 2024-11-19.
  7. Web site: Scott . Josh . 2023-06-01 . mdy . Platformatic secures $3.5 million, launches tech to simplify back-end development for enterprises . BetaKit . 2024-11-20.
  8. Web site: Williams . Marie . 2023-06-01 . mdy . Platformatic Raises $3.5M to Help Developers and Enterprises Evolve Microservices Without a Costly Rearchitecture of Legacy Backend . . 2024-11-20.
  9. Book: Spigolon . Manuel . Sinik . Maksim . Collina . Matteo . June 2023 . Accelerating Server-Side Development with Fastify . . 978-1-80056-358-2 . 2025-12-20.
  10. Web site: mdy . Organizations using Fastify . fastify.dev . 2025-07-27.

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