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An efficient server implies a lower cost of the infrastructure, better
responsiveness under load, and happy users. How can you efficiently handle the
resources of your server, knowing that you are serving the highest number of
requests possible, without sacrificing security validations and handy
development?

Enter Fastify. Fastify is a web framework highly focused on providing the best
developer experience with the least overhead and a powerful plugin architecture.
It is inspired by Hapi and Express and as far as we know, it is one of the
fastest web frameworks in town.

The main branch refers to the Fastify v5 release.
Check out the 4.x branch for v4.

Table of Contents

- [Quick start](#quick-start)
- [Install](#install)
- [Example](#example)
- [Core features](#core-features)
- [Benchmarks](#benchmarks)
- [Documentation](#documentation)
- [Ecosystem](#ecosystem)
- [Support](#support)
- [Team](#team)
- [Hosted by](#hosted-by)
- [License](#license)

Quick start

Create a folder and make it your current working directory:

sh
mkdir my-app
cd my-app

Generate a fastify project with npm init:

sh
npm init fastify

Install dependencies:

sh
npm i

To start the app in dev mode:

sh
npm run dev

For production mode:

sh
npm start

Under the hood npm init downloads and runs Fastify
Create, which in turn uses the
generate functionality of Fastify CLI.

Install

To install Fastify in an existing project as a dependency:

sh
npm i fastify

Example

js
// Require the framework and instantiate it

// ESM
import Fastify from 'fastify'

const fastify = Fastify({
  logger: true
})
// CommonJs
const fastify = require('fastify')({
  logger: true
})

// Declare a route
fastify.get('/', (request, reply) => {
  reply.send({ hello: 'world' })
})

// Run the server!
fastify.listen({ port: 3000 }, (err, address) => {
  if (err) throw err
  // Server is now listening on ${address}
})

With async-await:

js
// ESM
import Fastify from 'fastify'

const fastify = Fastify({
  logger: true
})
// CommonJs
const fastify = require('fastify')({
  logger: true
})

fastify.get('/', async (request, reply) => {
  reply.type('application/json').code(200)
  return { hello: 'world' }
})

fastify.listen({ port: 3000 }, (err, address) => {
  if (err) throw err
  // Server is now listening on ${address}
})

Do you want to know more? Head to the Getting Started.
If you learn best by reading code, explore the official demo.

> ## Note
> .listen binds to the local host, localhost, interface by default
> (127.0.0.1 or ::1, depending on the operating system configuration). If
> you are running Fastify in a container (Docker,
> GCP, etc.), you may need to bind to 0.0.0.0. Be
> careful when listening on all interfaces; it comes with inherent
> https://snyk.io/blog/mongodb-hack-and-secure-defaults/" rel="noopener nofollow" target="_blank">security
> risks.
> See [the documentation](./docs/Reference/Server.md#listen) for more
> information.

Core features

• Highly performant: as far as we know, Fastify is one of the fastest web

frameworks in town, depending on the code complexity we can serve up to 76+ thousand requests per second.

• Extensible: Fastify is fully extensible via its hooks, plugins, and

decorators.

• Schema-based: even if it is not mandatory we recommend using JSON

Schema to validate your routes and serialize your outputs. Internally Fastify compiles the schema in a highly performant function.

• Logging: logs are extremely important but are costly; we chose the best

logger to almost remove this cost, Pino!

• Developer friendly: the framework is built to be very expressive and help

developers in their daily use without sacrificing performance and security.

Benchmarks

__Machine:__ EX41S-SSD, Intel Core i7, 4Ghz, 64GB RAM, 4C/8T, SSD.

__Method__: autocannon -c 100 -d 40 -p 10 localhost:3000 * 2, taking the
second average

| Framework | Version | Router? | Requests/sec |
| :----------------- | :------------------------- | :----------: | ------------: |
| Express | 4.17.3 | ✓ | 14,200 |
| hapi | 20.2.1 | ✓ | 42,284 |
| Restify | 8.6.1 | ✓ | 50,363 |
| Koa | 2.13.0 | ✗ | 54,272 |
| Fastify | 4.0.0 | ✓ | 77,193 |
| - | | | |
| http.Server | 16.14.2 | ✗ | 74,513 |

These benchmarks taken using https://github.com/fastify/benchmarks. This is a
synthetic "hello world" benchmark that aims to evaluate the framework overhead.
The overhead that each framework has on your application depends on your
application. You should __always__ benchmark if performance matters to you.

Documentation

• [__Getting Started__](./docs/Guides/Getting-Started.md)
• [__Guides__](./docs/Guides/Index.md)
• [__Server__](./docs/Reference/Server.md)
• [__Routes__](./docs/Reference/Routes.md)
• [__Encapsulation__](./docs/Reference/Encapsulation.md)
• [__Logging__](./docs/Reference/Logging.md)
• [__Middleware__](./docs/Reference/Middleware.md)
• [__Hooks__](./docs/Reference/Hooks.md)
• [__Decorators__](./docs/Reference/Decorators.md)
• [__Validation and Serialization__](./docs/Reference/Validation-and-Serialization.md)
• [__Fluent Schema__](./docs/Guides/Fluent-Schema.md)
• [__Lifecycle__](./docs/Reference/Lifecycle.md)
• [__Reply__](./docs/Reference/Reply.md)
• [__Request__](./docs/Reference/Request.md)
• [__Errors__](./docs/Reference/Errors.md)
• [__Content Type Parser__](./docs/Reference/ContentTypeParser.md)
• [__Plugins__](./docs/Reference/Plugins.md)
• [__Testing__](./docs/Guides/Testing.md)
• [__Benchmarking__](./docs/Guides/Benchmarking.md)
• [__How to write a good plugin__](./docs/Guides/Write-Plugin.md)
• [__Plugins Guide__](./docs/Guides/Plugins-Guide.md)
• [__HTTP2__](./docs/Reference/HTTP2.md)
• [__Long Term Support__](./docs/Reference/LTS.md)
• [__TypeScript and types support__](./docs/Reference/TypeScript.md)
• [__Serverless__](./docs/Guides/Serverless.md)
• [__Recommendations__](./docs/Guides/Recommendations.md)

Ecosystem

• [Core](./docs/Guides/Ecosystem.md#core) - Core plugins maintained by the

_Fastify_ [team](#team).

• [Community](./docs/Guides/Ecosystem.md#community) - Community-supported

plugins.

• Live Examples - Multirepo with a broad

set of real working examples.

• Discord - Join our discord server and

chat with the maintainers.

Support

Please visit Fastify help to view prior support issues and to ask new support questions.

Version 3 of Fastify and lower are EOL and will not receive any security or bug
fixes.

Fastify's partner, HeroDevs, provides commercial security fixes for all
unsupported versions at [https://herodevs.com/support/fastify-nes][hd-link].
Fastify's supported version matrix is available in the
[Long Term Support][lts-link] documentation.

Contributing

Whether reporting bugs, discussing improvements and new ideas, or writing code,
we welcome contributions from anyone and everyone. Please read the [CONTRIBUTING](./CONTRIBUTING.md)
guidelines before submitting pull requests.

Team

_Fastify_ is the result of the work of a great community. Team members are
listed in alphabetical order.

Lead Maintainers:

• __Matteo Collina__,

,

• __Tomas Della Vedova__,

,

• __KaKa Ng__,

• __Manuel Spigolon__,

,

• __James Sumners__,

,

Fastify Core team

• __Aras Abbasi__,

• __Harry Brundage__,

,

• __Matteo Collina__,

,

• __Gürgün Dayıoğlu__,

• __Tomas Della Vedova__,

,

• __Carlos Fuentes__,

,

• __Vincent Le Goff__
• __Luciano Mammino__,

,

• __Jean Michelet__,

• __KaKa Ng__,

• __Luis Orbaiceta__,

• __Maksim Sinik__,

,

• __Manuel Spigolon__,

,

• __James Sumners__,

,

Fastify Plugins team

• __Harry Brundage__,

,

• __Simone Busoli__,

,

• __Dan Castillo__,

• __Matteo Collina__,

,

• __Gürgün Dayıoğlu__,

• __Tomas Della Vedova__,

,

• __Carlos Fuentes__,

,

• __Vincent Le Goff__
• __Jean Michelet__,

• __KaKa Ng__,

• __Maksim Sinik__,

,

• __Frazer Smith__,
• __Manuel Spigolon__,

,

• __Antonio Tripodi__,

Emeritus Contributors

Great contributors to a specific area of the Fastify ecosystem will be invited to join this group by Lead Maintainers when they decide to step down from the active contributor's group.

• __Tommaso Allevi__,

,

• __Ethan Arrowood__,

,

• __Çağatay Çalı__,

,

• __David Mark Clements__,

,

• __dalisoft__, ,

• __Dustin Deus__,

,

• __Denis Fäcke__,

,

• __Rafael Gonzaga__,

,

• __Trivikram Kamat__,

,

• __Ayoub El Khattabi__,

,

• __Cemre Mengu__,

,

• __Salman Mitha__,

• __Nathan Woltman__,

,

Hosted by

[](https://openjsf.org/projects)

We are an At-Large
Project
in the OpenJS Foundation.

Sponsors

Support this project by becoming a [SPONSOR](./SPONSORS.md)!
Fastify has an Open Collective
page where we accept and manage financial contributions.

Acknowledgments

This project is kindly sponsored by:

• NearForm
• Platformatic

This list includes all companies that support one or more team members
in maintaining thi

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