---
title: "Build Well-Documented and Authenticated APIs in Node.js with Fastify"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/build-well-documented-and-authenticated-apis-in-node-js-with-fastify-v0pvc1lw6
source_url: https://blog.heroku.com/build-openapi-apis-nodejs-fastify
type: article
source: "Heroku"
published: 2024-04-29T18:31:40.965Z
updated: 2024-05-09T08:58:27.770Z
tags: ["nodejs", "authentication", "fastify"]
reading_time: 15
upvotes: 3
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Build Well-Documented and Authenticated APIs in Node.js with Fastify

**[Heroku](https://daily.dev/sources/heroku)** · 15 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Learn how to build well-documented and authenticated APIs in Node.js with Fastify. Use Fastify's plugin architecture and JSON web tokens (JWT) for authentication. Deploy your API to Heroku for easy and fast deployment.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://blog.heroku.com/build-openapi-apis-nodejs-fastify>

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Tags: [#nodejs](https://daily.dev/tags/nodejs), [#authentication](https://daily.dev/tags/authentication), [#fastify](https://daily.dev/tags/fastify)

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