Open Source Friday with Fastify: Maximizing Efficiency, Minimizing Cost

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Introduction

Andrea, a senior project manager at GitHub, discusses the importance of recognizing and valuing contributors' efforts in the open source community.
GitHub has developed the Contributor's Action, a tool to empower project maintainers and open source managers to gain valuable engagement metrics, thank contributors, monitor trends, and identify emerging leaders within their communities.

Integrating the Contributor's Action into a project is straightforward by starting with a new or existing repository.
Choose a workflow and customize it based on the project's needs, as guided by the README.
Set up the GitHub token and start using the Contributor's Action to view contribution metrics, track new and returning contributors, and more.

Andrea introduces Mato Keino, the co-founder and CTO of Platform Matic, a platform for simplifying backend development.
Mato Keino is also a vital member of the Node.js technical steering committee and has made significant contributions to the open source community, including the creation of Fastify and Pinol Logger.
Mato Keino discusses his experience building Fastify, an open source web framework, and its impact on the community.
He also highlights the importance of validating data and the benefits of using Fastify for building APIs in Node.js.

Mato Keino demonstrates how to create a basic Fastify server and enable logging for better developer experience.
He showcases the power of Fastify's plugin system by adding the Fastify Static plugin, which allows serving static files.
Mato Keino emphasizes the importance of data validation and showcases Fastify's built-in validation capabilities.
He also briefly introduces Fastify's integration with OpenAPI documentation and demonstrates using the Fastify Swagger plugin to test the API.

Mato Keino discusses the upcoming Fastify v5 release and invites TypeScript experts to contribute to its improvement.
He encourages new contributors to join the Fastify community on Discord and participate in discussions and issue resolutions.
Mato Keino also promotes the Platform Matic webinar where participants can learn more about Fastify and its development journey.

Mato Keino briefly introduces Platform Matic, a developer platform built on top of Fastify with additional features and an enhanced developer experience.
Platform Matic aims to simplify backend development and offers tools for integrating TypeScript, testing, database connections, and composing multiple APIs.
Mato Keino invites developers to check out Platform Matic and consider using it to streamline their API development process.

Andrea concludes the session, urging viewers to contribute to the Fastify GitHub repository and leave a star to support the project.
She thanks Mato Keino for his insights and highlights the upcoming Fastify master class.