Why we built another framework
summary
Fastify claims to be a new Node.js framework built for speed and low overhead: a JSON serializer fast_json_stringify speeds serialization 2–5x, microbenchmarks hit ~43,000 req/s vs ~25k for Express, and the framework enforces plugin encapsulation with a DAG loading order and per-plugin log levels. It ships tooling and LTS policy (six months active plus six months security), is in the Node.js canary suite, and reports ~150k downloads, ~155 npm packages, ~78 official plugins, ~100 contributors and ~8k GitHub stars.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Start
- 4:02Design goals Built for speed
- 5:05Design goals Almost zero overhead
- 13:28Everything is a plugin
- 15:03Design goals Long Term Support
- 15:59Design goals OPEN open source
- 16:44Fastify v2 is coming
