Restify VS fastify-express

Restify & Fastify Hapi

Restify – Optimized NodeJS Microservice Framework

We've seen this framework forking happen a lot as good ideas are remixed like Aurelia via Angular, Derw via Elm, Restify via Express, and Spring Boot via Spring to name a few. It's interesting to me this obsession with performance that Preact has with their ability to provide a simple API. That said, I am in no way convinced this'll solve the architecture problem. Without at least guidance, or more importantly, a framework + docs on how to utilize Signals at scale, you'll just end up with a random mess. Still, it's awesome how far they've come, and it's neat to see them still innovating years later.

Restify.js: Future of Node.js REST development

Express GraphQL is a library for building production ready GraphQL HTTP middleware. Despite the emphasis on Express in the repo name, you can create a GraphQL HTTP server with any HTTP web framework that supports connect styled middleware. This includes Connect itself, Express and Restify.

Is express still the go-to HTTP server? How are hapi and restify doing? Has koa ever really picked up? Is there any new cool stuff to watch out for (fastify, anyone)?

Restify - No native support yet. Support merged mid-2020, scheduled for a v9 release.

As mentioned in part 2 of this series, using the @fastify/express plugin is the quickest way to get your existing Express application working with Fastify. The plugin adds full Express compatibility to Fastify so that you can easily use any Express middleware — or even an entire Express application — with your Fastify instance, and it will just work with no changes required.

Fastify also supports Express-style middleware but it requires you to install an external plugin such as @fastify/express or @fastify/middie. This eases migration from Express to Fastify, but it should not be used in greenfield projects in favor of hooks. Note that in many cases, you can find a native Fastify plugin that provides the same functionality as Express middleware.

Fastify Express

It's correct that fastify doesn't support middleware out of the box. But Nestjs and its fastify adapter support it. I think they are using this package: https://github.com/fastify/fastify-express

I've found that the fastify-express plugin makes migrating from Express to Fastify much easier: https://github.com/fastify/fastify-express. It has full support for Express middleware and routes, allowing you to migrate things in stages if you prefer.

An excellent alternative to Express or Restify is the Fastify framework. It has full native support for async code and is in active development. There is also a fastify-express plugin available which can help ease your migration path away from Express.

It seems like most of the important plugins have been built and available in the fastify ecosystem. Also with https://github.com/fastify/fastify-express you can use all the express middleware, and actually wrap your entire express application in fastify (obviously just cause you can, not cause you should)

This framework is well maintained, and provides an official compatibility layer for Express to help you migrate your application.