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Meet Express.js on Steroids: Fastify's Rise

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I was recently recommended trying Fastify instead of Express.js. Being a little suspicious at first, I went to read about it.

Turns out this newer library outshines Express with its superior performance and flexibility.

Here's a snapshot of their benchmark showdown:

Framework Requests/Sec 99th Percentile Latency Total Requests
Express.js 20,000 1 ms 221,000
Fastify 50,000 <1 ms --
Express + MongoDB 6,500 3 ms 70,000
Fastify + MongoDB 8,800 2 ms 86,000

Source: A Showdown Between Express.js and Fastify Web App Frameworks

Fastify's advanced performance is attributed to its efficient architecture and the fast-json-stringify library.

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Seems nice. Does it have support for CORS, limit, slowdown etc.

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It does by plugins