Happy Little Monoliths is an upcoming ebook covering full stack development directly with Fastify and Vite, avoiding metaframeworks entirely.

Available on April 4, 2025 for $49.99 USD.

Pre-order now for only $29.99 USD

Included

  • The full book in PDF & HTML formats.
  • Complete source code for all examples.
  • Access to book support Discord server.
  • Access to starter applications.

Chapters

  • 1. How It All Started
  • 2. Modern JavaScript in 2025
  • 3. A Fastify and Vite Crash Course
  • 4. Choosing a Rendering Strategy
  • 5. Building an Application Shell
  • 6. Fetching and Submitting Data
  • 7. Maintaining Sessions
  • 8. Maximizing SSR Performance
  • 9. Production Deployment

Happy Little Monoliths

Build and deploy full stack Node.js applications with Fastify and Vite.

About

I'm Jonas Galvez.

I write code and I write about code.

I specialise in Node.js, Fastify and Vue.

I'm a Principal Engineer at feature.fm, where I'm also allowed to work on open source software.

I built and maintain @fastify/vite, @fastify/react, @fastify/vue, @fastify/htmx and fluent-env.

 

 

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