Fastify Starter

A very opinionated Fastify Plugin to kickstart your project.

It combines the utilities of lc39 and custom-plugin-lib and gives them as an idiomatic Fastify plugin without custom types.

Getting Started

Install

To install the package you can run:

npm install node-hot-starter

Usage

To use the plugin, simply register it after creating an instance of Fastify:

import NodeHotStarter from 'node-hot-starter'

const schema = {
  type: 'object',
  properties: {
    HTTP_PORT: { type: 'number', default: 3000 },
    LOG_LEVEL: { type: 'string', default: 'trace' },
  },
}

const fastify = Fastify()
await fastify.register(NodeHotStarter, {
  envSchema: schema,
  logLevelEnvKey: 'LOG_LEVEL',
})

Remember to await the plugin so that all the configurations can be loaded before continuing.

Functionalities

The plugin provides you out of the box:

• env schema handling via fastify-env
• logging enhancement
• metrics exposed to Prometheus via fastify-metrics
• graceful shutdown catching the Kubernetes signals
• status routes for Kubernetes (/-/ready, /-/healthz and /-/check-up)
• OpenAPI spec generation and a Swagger Viewer via fastify-swagger and fastify-swagger-ui
• an HTTP client based on Axios with pre-built handling of platform headers and logging
• handling of platform headers via Fastify request decorators

How To

• Initialize the Fastify instance
• Configure the plugin
• Use the envs in your handlers
• Expose a Prometheus metric
• Create an HTTP client instance
• Get platform headers values