README.md

Learn Fastify by building a Recipe App (Typescript Ready)

Havyt is Node.js Full-Stack Web Application that's built ground-up, step-by-step to

• Introduce the essential components of Fastify like the server, router and powerful constructs like plugins, hooks and decorators all while remaining simple in its approach so that it's easy for new comers to the Framework to pick things
• Show the workings of a modern Node.js framework that values stability, extensibility and speed over simple ergnomics
• Possibly accomodate all sorts of very common use cases with time (while remaining commited to simplicity) either in the main branch
  • Fastify for APIs
  • Fastify for Server Side Web Apps
  • Fastify & Auth
• Or, extended use cases like (in the different branches or forks)
  • Fastify & Modern FE Frameworks (Svelte, SolidJS, Next.js, Vite, etc.)
  • Fastify Fully-Tested (setup is available, but lagging currently )
  • Fastify and different DB flavors(The main repo has just a hand-rolled FS based data store)
  • Fastify & GraphQL
  • Fastify for Serverless
  • Fastify & Micro-services

Note: The repo may remain Concept-Complete First than Feature-complete, so that individual important commits could be checked out, and built upon as an exercise to learn about different features in-depth.

Commits so far...

partially documented

Topic	Sub-topic	Commit
1.Setup	Set-up Typescript, ESLint, Prettier, ts-node-dev
	Husky and lint-staged
2. Model Entities	Add Types
	Add Fixtures
3. Serve	Your first HTTP Server
	Your First HTTP Server with Fastify
	Use ES Syntax for a better looking code
	Keep Fastify App and Server, close but separate
	Catch Server exceptions, and exit the process
4. GET what they want	Create routes per resource
	Get creative with /GETs
	Type what you receive
	Get more creative with /GET (recipe)
	Tell what you don't have
	Tell what you don't have (JSON edition)
5. Be able to get more of what they want	HTTP verb galore - more ways to receive actions (category)
	Enforce constraints, inform data issues
	Type easy
	Exercise: Add more methods for recipe
6. Validate what you get	Add validation with JSON Schema
	Schemas to Types
	Add serialisation with JSON Schema
	Re-factor: Add Per-resource schema files
	Derive types from schemas
	Add schemas to Get All calls

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When to expect the new changes?

There's no timeline, but I try to contribute once every week in this repo with application of one single concept. You can watch the repo, or follow me on Twitter to be notified of the updates.

Trivia

This project builds upon my past experience of building Web-Apps/APIs/Boilerplates on top of Node.js like Attic and Embrace