next-connect VS fastify-nextjs

Try next-connect

Same. I found this example [1] particularly helpful, although I don't know how good this [2] library it uses is. Overall, I've seen multiple OSS projects [3] that try to support a missing functionality in Next.js seem to just give up trying to keep up with their breaking changes.

[1] https://stackblitz.com/edit/github-mwzv1t?file=README.md

[2] https://github.com/hoangvvo/next-connect

[3] https://github.com/cyrilwanner/next-optimized-images

import { getMongoClient } from 'lib/mongodb'; async function createHandler(req, res) { const { text } = req.body; const createdAt = new Date(); if (!text) { res.status(400).json({ message: 'Validation errors', errors: { text: ['Please add a text value'], }, }); return; } const goals = (await getMongoClient()).db.collection('goals'); const { insertedId: _id } = await goals.insertOne({ text, createdAt, }); res .status(201) .json({ _id, text, createdAt }); } async function listHandler(req, res) { const goals = (await getMongoClient()).db.collection('goals'); const list = []; const cursor = goals.find({}, { sort: { createdAt: 1 }, }); if ((await goals.estimatedDocumentCount()) === 0) { res.status(204).send(undefined); return; } while (await cursor.hasNext()) { const goal = await cursor.next(); list.push(goal); } res.json(list); } // Instead of this you should use https://github.com/hoangvvo/next-connect export default function handler(req, res) { if (req.method === 'POST') { createHandler(req, res); } else { listHandler(req, res); } }

Interesting approach. I am personally not a fan of how it plays out. I think next-connect provides a cleaner approach to this problem. https://github.com/hoangvvo/next-connect

Hey, thanks for the feedback! The genesis of this library is that I used next-connect in one of my apps but I personally didn't like combining routing with middleware layer and I had some issue related to matching although I wasn't matching multiple routes in one file. I didn't find workaround to this and honestly I didn't had motivation to search more. Instead I thought making utility for middleware that would fit to my needs would be really cool thing, and extracting it from my app source to separate public library would be even cooler since I'm beginner open sourcerer but i plan to go further into this direction so I guess its a good start 😄

I think what you're looking for is a way to access your DB via middleware, if so take a look at: https://github.com/hoangvvo/next-connect.

I use next-connect to use connect-like middlewares. A traditional API route handler in Next.js is like:

Are you trying to run some middleware before the api functions? If so, this may help next-connect

I like fastify more than express due to the great opinions (json schema, hooks etc). I use fastify + the fastify-nextjs plugin. It works great and lets you expose custom request decorations from node.js to next.js.

Maybe this can help you too: https://github.com/fastify/fastify-nextjs

The only drawback is the slow startup time of next.js, which becomes really annoying with huge next.js projects. But for smaller projects, fastify-nextjs is fine.