I like fastify more than express due to the great opinions (json schema, hooks etc). I use fastify + the fastify-nextjs plugin. It works great and lets you expo

I like fastify more than express due to the great opinions (json schema, hooks etc). I use fastify + the fastify-nextjs plugin. It works great and lets you expose custom request decorations from node.js to next.js. Maybe this can help you too: https://github.com/fastify/fastify-nextjs https://github.com/fastify/fastify-nextjs The only drawback is the slow startup time of next.js, which becomes really annoying with huge next.js projects. But for smaller projects, fastify-nextjs is fine.