Workshop recording: Get Started with Fastify

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This is a recording of the free Get Started With Fastify workshop that I ran on May 18th, 2021.

The code for this workshop is on GitHub:

The beginning of the workshop is missing from the video as I forgot to start recording until we were a few minutes in!

Here are my notes for those missing few minutes:

In this workshop we’re going to be building a basic API with the Fastify framework. This will be the start of an API for a recipes app
In the next hour we’re going to cover:
- Creating a Fastify server instance
- Adding an API route for creating new recipes
- Adding request validation to the new recipe API route
Let’s take a look at our application’s package.json
Setting type to module to tell Node.js that we’re using ECMAScript modules, using import / export syntax
start:dev npm run script, using nodemon for restarting the application
start npm run script, will be run when we run nodemon
dependencies and devDependencies
Show empty server.js
Start server with nodemon – npm run start:dev
curl -v localhost:3000 – no HTTP server
We need to create a Fastify server instance which can listen for HTTP requests

…and the rest of the workshop is in the video!