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I haven't been following the Node ecosystem closely. However Fastify is really interesting. Why choose Fastify over Koa? I've never understood why Koa gets so l

• eropple 4y ago
  Fastify has, IMO, a better Typescript story than any other framework, particularly with Fastify 4. I also prefer Fastify's ergonomics around plugins as scoping to Koa's Connect-derived approach, and I don't really love having a `ctx` object as opposed to req/res (but that one is purely a taste thing). For me, if I wanted what Koa does, Express does 90% of it and I already know it off the top of my head. And I don't really want Express because I'll have to reinvent a lot of wheels or stack a lot of sorta-compatible middleware on top of one another (Fastify's ecosystem is smaller but generally pretty cohesive). Nothing at all wrong with Koa, to be clear--I just don't have a use for it.
  • dimgl 4y ago
    Super cool. I'm gonna give Fastify a shot next time I'm in Node.js land. Thanks!