Creating Telegram Bots With Node.js & Fastify: A Comprehensive Guide
Building a Telegram bot with Node.js & Fastify: Set up env, create config file, implement Redis & UI, combine parts together. Use async/await, ES6 imports & Docker Compose for easy dev environment management.
The final chapter of the series covers an advanced example of a Telegram bot using Fastify as a server to listen to incoming requests. It also provides additional plugins and middleware capability. Please check the previous parts before proceeding if you haven't seen them. Fastify Express is the gold standard for a web framework in NodeJS. It has extensive online documentation and examples and a large community of developers. But why Fastify? I chose it because it is lightweight, highly performant, and TypeScript-ready. It allows for writing async middleware, but Express v5 now supp...