Express VS fastify

Compare Express vs fastify and see what are their differences.

Express

Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node. (by expressjs)

fastify

Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js (by fastify)
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Express fastify
638 124
62,444 29,202
0.4% 1.2%
6.6 9.4
3 days ago 4 days ago
JavaScript JavaScript
MIT License GNU General Public License v3.0 or later
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Express

Posts with mentions or reviews of Express. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-12-07.

fastify

Posts with mentions or reviews of fastify. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-07-27.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Express and fastify you can also consider the following projects:

Next.js - The React Framework

SvelteKit - web development, streamlined

Nuxt.js - Nuxt is an intuitive and extendable way to create type-safe, performant and production-grade full-stack web apps and websites with Vue 3. [Moved to: https://github.com/nuxt/nuxt]

AdonisJs Application

Nest - A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable, and enterprise-grade server-side applications with TypeScript/JavaScript 🚀

Restify - The future of Node.js REST development

loopback-next - LoopBack makes it easy to build modern API applications that require complex integrations.

Koa - Expressive middleware for node.js using ES2017 async functions

json-server - Get a full fake REST API with zero coding in less than 30 seconds (seriously)

Hapi - The Simple, Secure Framework Developers Trust