How to build a blazingly fast API with Fastify

Fastify is a Node.js framework known for its high performance and powerful plugin architecture, drawing inspiration from Hapi and Express. The latest version, Fastify v3.0, introduces features like enhanced TypeScript support and schema substitution. It can handle up to 78,956 requests per second, outperforming other frameworks like Express and Koa. Fastify's extensibility is facilitated through hooks, plugins, and decorators, allowing developers to easily scale projects. The framework includes built-in logging with Pino and supports JSON schema for route validation. Its plugin ecosystem is robust, offering both core and community plugins such as fastify-auth for authentication and fastify-cors for handling cross-origin requests. A tutorial on building a basic Fastify server demonstrates how to set up routes, use plugins, and implement data validation, highlighting Fastify's ease of use and rapid development capabilities.