Fastify Best Practices

Fastify stands out in the Node.js community for its incredible speed and extremely low overhead. However, to unlock its full potential and build robust, maintainable, and scalable enterprise-level applications, a set of effective “best practices” is necessary.

This blog series condenses my trial-and-error experiences and insights from real-world work, sharing a complete set of best practices for the entire Fastify workflow, from project setup to deployment and maintenance. Whether you are a newcomer to Fastify or an experienced developer, I hope you will find the inspiration and tips here to elevate your next project.

• Fastify Best Practices #1: Environment Variables
• Fastify Best Practices #2: autoLoad
• Fastify Best Practices #3: Database Access
• Fastify Best Practices #4: Use Zod Instead of Ajv for Schema Management
• Fastify Best Practices #5: Generating Swagger Documentation
• Fastify Best Practices #6: Global Contextual Logging
• Fastify Best Practices #7: Building a Robust and Reliable Jest Test Suite

Source Code: fastify-best-practice