Fastify 5 Has a Free Web Framework: The Fastest Node.js Server With Built-In Validation, Logging, and Plugin System

Express handles 30,000 requests per second. Fastify handles 65,000+. Both use Node.js. The difference? Fastify was designed for performance from day one — JSON serialization, schema-based validation, and a plugin architecture that doesn't sacrifice speed. If you're building APIs on Node.js and performance matters, Express is leaving money on the table. Fastify 5 — What You Get 2x Express throughput — 65,000+ req/s on a single core JSON Schema validation — request/response validated automatically Structured logging — Pino logger built in (30x faster than Winston) Plugin system — encapsulated, composable, no global middleware soup TypeScript-first — full type inference for routes, plugins, decorators Auto-generated Swagger — from your JSON schemas Quick Start npm init fastify@latest my-api cd my-api && npm install && npm run dev Basic Route With Validation import Fastify from " fastify " ; const app = Fastify ({ logger : true }); app . post ( " /users " , { schema : { body : { type : " o