Building a Node API with Fastify, esbuild, and Nx

• nx

  344 21,907 10.0 TypeScript

  Smart Monorepos · Fast CI

  

👩‍💻 Nx GitHub

• fastify

  124 30,512 9.4 JavaScript

  Fast and low overhead web framework, for Node.js

  

We’ll be using Fastify as the framework of choice. Fastify is a fast (as the name implies) and low-overhead server in Node. It has grown in popularity, recently crossing the 1 million weekly download mark on npm. I’m a fan of Fastify’s plugin architecture, and the ecosystem is quite impressive, boasting over 250 core and community plugins.

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• jest

  473 43,553 9.6 TypeScript

  Delightful JavaScript Testing.

  

Unit tests take advantage of Fastify’s plugin architecture, and allows you to test each plugin in isolation. It runs using Jest, which is the most popular test runner in Node.

• flyctl

  543 1,298 9.9 Go

  Command line tools for fly.io services

  

There are numerous platforms that we can deploy our app to. I like Fly.io since it very easy to deploy all over the world using the CLI, and it comes with good Docker support.

• esbuild

  322 37,203 9.6 Go

  An extremely fast bundler for the web

Now that we have our production-ready app, let’s examine how Nx handles the build process using [esbuild](https://esbuild.github.io/).

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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