polka
fastify
polka | fastify | |
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7 | 124 | |
5,342 | 30,639 | |
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4.4 | 9.4 | |
about 2 months ago | 4 days ago | |
JavaScript | JavaScript | |
MIT License | GNU General Public License v3.0 or later |
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polka
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Serving static files with Node.JS
Express.js, with its long-lived version 4 is famous for its somewhat low performance. Other projects like fastify or polka have benchmarks outperforming Express.js. I don’t know why Express is slower, maybe because of regex processing of routes? If you’re using parametric routes like /users/:userid/entity and have no regexp routes, then replacing Express.js with fastify or polka will add a performance boost to your app. They are not direct replacements, but you can convert code if you really need that boost. In the article below benchmarks shows huge improvement, but in reality, your code will be a limiting factor to your app performance, and you are unlikely notice any improvement.
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My Evaluation of SvelteKit for Full-Stack Web App Development
- once released and popular, they cease getting frequent updates
Now, yes this is a generalization. It doesn't apply to all of their packages, and not at the same point in time. But there is a pattern there. Some quick diving into the author's Github account, and their more popular repos shows the pattern. It's also clear that this was a choice made by a Svelte contributor to use their own package for "official" support in Svelte Kit.
When it comes to polka itself, I just don't get why a maturing framework like Svelte would choose something whose only real advantage lies in micro-benchmarking porn [1]. Speculation aside, I'm surprised the Svelte team didn't look at that choice through a lens of higher scrutiny. Koa would have been an infinitely better choice in my personal opinion, and there are several community-driven setups [2][3] for it.
[1] https://github.com/lukeed/polka#benchmarks
[2] https://github.com/kaladivo/svelte-kit-koa-boilerplate
[3] https://blog.logrocket.com/sapper-svelte-tutorial-2021/
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What are some packages that you used to solve problems that you encountered while developing applications?
Check out polka if you haven’t. It’s far leaner, and faster.
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Looking For Light Weight Node API Framework
polka link
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Deploying Sapper application to Deta.sh
Sapper, by default, uses polka as the server. I decided to use express instead.
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Multitenancy in Next.js
Learn something new every day. This is awesome I could probably use polka instead of express.
fastify
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Should you use jest as a testing library?
For example, Fastify removed the instanceof operatorfrom its codebase because it was causing problems for those developers that rely on jest as a testing framework.
- Is this a valid reason to give up node?
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Next JS vs Nest JS
Both are frameworks but NextJs is for Forntend (web app in browser that use ReactJs under the hood) and NestJs is for Backend (server app running on a server witch use Express or Fastify). The only thing similar between them is the typed language in which they were written.
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Stop using express.js
Restify & Fastify Hapi
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The fundamentals of building a Docker image
Let's create a sample Node API project we can work with throughout to build a new docker image. We will leverage Fastify to create an API that we configure via the fastify-cli.
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Aplicação de Referência Empresarial em JavaScript - Contoso Real Estate
Fastify
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Building a modern gRPC-powered microservice using Node.js, Typescript, and Connect
In setting out to build this service, we wanted to use gRPC for its APIs. We’ve been reaching for REST when building APIs so far, primarily out of necessity, i.e., our public APIs needed auto-generated client SDKs and docs for developers working with them. We built those APIs with Fastify and Typebox but felt burned by a code-first approach to generating an OpenAPI spec. I’ll spare you the details and save that experience/learning for another article. Suffice it to say we love gRPC’s schema-first approach. This blog post summarizes our feelings well
- Node.js 20 is now available
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Node JS Microservice Frameworks for Developing Scalable Web Apps.
Fastify – Fast and Low overhead web framework
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How to Speed Up your Applications by Caching at the Edge with HarperDB
Custom Functions are powered by Fastify (a light-weight Node.js framework that claims to be faster than Express.js), so they’re extremely flexible.
What are some alternatives?
SvelteKit - web development, streamlined
Next.js - The React Framework
serve-static - Serve static files
Express - Fast, unopinionated, minimalist web framework for node.
tinyhttp - 🦄 0-legacy, tiny & fast web framework as a replacement of Express
Koa - Expressive middleware for node.js using ES2017 async functions
fastify-static - Plugin for serving static files as fast as possible
Nest - A progressive Node.js framework for building efficient, scalable, and enterprise-grade server-side applications with TypeScript/JavaScript 🚀
Hapi - The Simple, Secure Framework Developers Trust
marshal.ts - A new full-featured and high-performance TypeScript framework
AdonisJs Framework - AdonisJS is a TypeScript-first web framework for building web apps and API servers. It comes with support for testing, modern tooling, an ecosystem of official packages, and more.