Categorize Fastify Plugins
Add every registered Fastify plugin to a category (e.g. Databases, Authentication...) Given the increasing number of plugins (core or community) that fastify has, I think it would be a good idea to start thinking of categorizing them so Fastify users can easily discover them. Sometimes names are not as descriptive as…
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