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Fastify

Fastify improves speed, performance, scalability and developer experience for ambitious enterprises

About Fastify

Fastify is an Open Source, fast, low overhead, free web framework for Node.js. Providing exceptional speed, efficiency, performance and developer experience, it enables enterprises to deliver outstanding user experiences at scale. Fastify is a vital tool for brands such as Mercedes-Benz, and is the 25th most used framework among developers worldwide.

Nearform is a key contributor and sponsor of the Fastify project. Nearform team members serve as core maintainers who drive the development and evolution of the framework. Fastify is a perfect example of our commitment to the Open Source community and consistent contributions of code, documentation and thought leadership.

Nearform helps ambitious enterprises adopt Fastify, such as helping Cardo Health leverage it to get digital healthcare to emerging markets.

Working for Fastify is a mark of excellence that is reflected in all the projects Nearform works on.
Manuel Spigolon Book Author, Fastify Lead Maintainer, Senior Dev at Nearform

Benefits of Node.js

Speed and scalability

Fastify is designed from the ground up for speed, maintainability and developer experience. Its performance is unmatched, making it ideal for building highly scalable web applications.

Efficiency

Fastify is optimised for low overhead. This allows developers to create efficient applications without sacrificing performance or scalability.

Robust and secure applications

Fastify comes with built-in, schema-based validation and serialisation, allowing for data validation at the earliest stages of the request lifecycle. This leads to more robust and secure applications.

Custom solutions

Fastify is highly modular, with its plugin architecture allowing developers to find, integrate, and build features without excess bloat of unnecessary components. Its rich ecosystem of plugins allows developers to quickly extend and customise their web applications.

Easy maintenance

Fastify’s plugin architecture relies on well-defined interfaces between components. This promotes separation of concerns, leading to fewer bugs, efficient evolution and easier maintenance.

Great web server load management

Asynchronous programming is a fundamental feature of Fastify. This makes it an excellent choice for building APIs and services that require non-blocking I/O operations, and means it’s an efficient way of managing web server load.

Nearform's contributions to Fastify

Nearform helps grow and evolve Fastify by playing a crucial role in building its community and making improvements to its technology.

Community building

By providing a wealth of educational content, including tutorials, blog posts, webinars and workshops, we strive to help developers learn Fastify and apply best practices to build amazing applications.

We play a leadership role in the Fastify community by participating in community events, contributing to discussions, authoring books and guiding the project’s strategic direction. Our leadership helps advance this essential OpenJS Foundation project.

Technical improvements

Nearform develops and maintains several Fastify plugins specifically designed to enhance its capabilities in enterprise settings by ensuring it can handle complex and load-intensive workloads — all this is Open Source and available to the greater community. This promotes innovation in web application performance and security.

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Number of employee contributors (all time)

 

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Number of contributions (all time)

 

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Lines of code changed (all time)

 

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Most active contributor (globally)

 

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