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Testify with Fastify
Part 1 of 4
Get started with Test-Driven Development by building a simple Calculator API in a modern, server-side, framework - Fastify.
Setup Prettier, Typescript and Jest
The beginning is a very good place to start and we begin by setting up our project. You might want to skip this if you're familiar with setting up a project with Jest and Typescript. I have opened a Github pull request that shows all the code changes...
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