About fastify-mcp
fastify-mcp is a Fastify plugin for running Model Context Protocol servers inside a Fastify application. It supports both the Streamable HTTP and legacy HTTP+SSE transports, aimed at Node.js developers already using Fastify.
Key features
- 01Supports Streamable HTTP transport
- 02Supports legacy HTTP+SSE transport
- 03Registers as a Fastify plugin
- 04In-memory management of multiple sessions
- 05Connected, terminated and error session events
Use cases
- 01Exposing an MCP endpoint in an existing Fastify app
- 02Managing multiple MCP sessions on a host server
MCP support
The plugin mounts an MCP server on Fastify routes so MCP clients can connect over HTTP. It keeps an in-memory mapping of session IDs to active sessions.
Configuration
Local server config is the same for every client. Copy it into your client’s MCP config file.
We haven’t collected a package or remote endpoint for this server. Follow the instructions in the project README.
Tools
Local servers expose tools only once running on your machine, and the maintainer has not provided a tool list.
Details
From the project READMEfastify-mcp
Integrate Model Context Protocol servers with your Fastify app.
Supports the Streamable HTTP transport as well as the legacy HTTP+SSE transport.
Usage
First, define your MCP server.
function createServer() {
const mcpServer = new McpServer({
name: "...",
version: "...",
});
mcpServer.tool("...");
mcpServer.resource("...");
return mcpServer.server;
}
Create a Fastify app and register the plugin.
import { fastify } from "fastify";
import { streamableHttp } from "fastify-mcp";
import { StreamableHTTPServerTransport } from "@modelcontextprotocol/sdk/server/streamableHttp.js";
const app = fastify();
app.register(streamableHttp, {
// Set to `true` if you want a stateful server
stateful: false,
mcpEndpoint: "/mcp",
sessions: new Sessions<StreamableHTTPServerTransport>()
createServer,
});
app.listen({ port: 8080 });
See the examples directory for more detailed examples.
Installation
# npm
npm install fastify-mcp
# yarn
yarn add fastify-mcp
Session Management
The official MCP TypeScript SDK does not support managing multiple sessions out of the box, and therefore it's the host server's responsibility to do so.
This package uses an in-memory mapping of each active session against its session ID to manage multiple sessions, as recommended by the MCP SDK examples.
Session Events
The Sessions class emits the following events:
connected: Emitted when a new session is added.terminated: Emitted when a session is removed.error: Emitted when an asynchronous event handler throws an error.
const sessions = new Sessions<StreamableHTTPServerTransport>();
sessions.on("connected", (sessionId) => {
console.log(`Session ${sessionId} connected`);
});
sessions.on("terminated", (sessionId) => {
console.log(`Session ${sessionId} terminated`);
});
Contributing
Please file an issue if you encounter a problem when using this package. Pull requests for new features or bug fixes are also welcome.
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