--- title: Creating a gateway service with node js, typescript and... description: gateway is an infrastructure layer that sits at the front of all your back-end micro-services. It is a node network, a key stopping point for data on its way... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/creating-a-gateway-service-with-node-js-typescript-and-fastify--yl-djpegb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Creating a gateway service with node js, typescript and fastify. | daily.dev og:description: gateway is an infrastructure layer that sits at the front of all your back-end micro-services. It is a node network, a key stopping point for data on its way... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/creating-a-gateway-service-with-node-js-typescript-and-fastify--yl-djpegb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/Yl_DjpEGb.png og:image:alt: Creating a gateway service with node js, typescript and fastify. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Creating a gateway service with node js, typescript and fastify. **[Towards Dev](https://daily.dev/sources/towardsdev)** · 2 min read · 23 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary gateway is an infrastructure layer that sits at the front of all your back-end micro-services. It is a node network, a key stopping point for data on its way to or from other networks. Since we are using typescript, we have a lot of configuring to do before hand. We are going to make use of the micro- services architecture. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#javascript](https://daily.dev/tags/javascript), [#architecture](https://daily.dev/tags/architecture), [#typescript](https://daily.dev/tags/typescript), [#fastify](https://daily.dev/tags/fastify) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/creating-a-gateway-service-with-node-js-typescript-and-fastify--yl-djpegb) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Creating a gateway service with node js, typescript and fastify.","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/creating-a-gateway-service-with-node-js-typescript-and-fastify--yl-djpegb","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/creating-a-gateway-service-with-node-js-typescript-and-fastify--yl-djpegb"},"datePublished":"2021-09-03T07:25:25.978Z","dateModified":"2021-10-07T14:17:10.317Z","description":" gateway is an infrastructure layer that sits at the front of all your back-end micro-services. It is a node network, a key stopping point for data on its way...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/5d2196aa34e43fb04d9ceae670a095d2","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/5d2196aa34e43fb04d9ceae670a095d2","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"Towards Dev","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Towards Dev","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/2c710db2750a4a70835862534cb7c9d4","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/towardsdev"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/creating-a-gateway-service-with-node-js-typescript-and-fastify--yl-djpegb","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":23},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"javascript,architecture,typescript,fastify","timeRequired":"PT2M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Towards Dev","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/towardsdev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Creating a gateway service with node js, typescript and fastify."}]} ```