Table of Content

There's no correct way to learn Elysia, but we highly recommended you checkout the an Interactive Tutorial first to get familiar with Elysia:

Interactive Tutorial

First up

We highly recommended you to check out these 2 pages first before getting started with Elysia:

• Key Concept – Core concept of Elysia and how to effectively
• Best Practice – Understand best practice to write Elysia code

llms.txt

Alternatively, you can download llms.txt or llms‑full.txt and feed it to your favorite LLMs like ChatGPT, Claude or Gemini to get a more interactive experience.

• llms.txt – Download summarized Elysia doc in Markdown format with reference for prompting LLMs
• llms‑full.txt – Download full Elysia doc in Markdown format in a single file for prompting LLMs

If you are stuck

Feel free to ask our community on GitHub Discussions, Discord, and Twitter.

• Discord – Official ElysiaJS discord community server – https://discord.gg/eaFJ2KDJck
• Twitter – Track updates and status of Elysia – https://twitter.com/elysiajs
• GitHub – Source code and development – https://github.com/elysiajs

From other Framework?

If you have used other popular frameworks like Express, Fastify, or Hono, you will find Elysia right at home with just a few differences.

• From Express – Comparison between tRPC and Elysia
• From Fastify – Comparison between Fastify and Elysia
• From Hono – Comparison between tRPC and Elysia
• From tRPC – Comparison between tRPC and Elysia

Essential Chapter

Here are the foundation of Elysia, we highly recommended you to go through these pages before jumping to other topics:

• Route – Understand how routing works in Elysia
• Handler – Learn about how to handle request
• Validation – How to enforce type safety with Elysia
• Life Cycle – Learn different type of lifecycle
• Plugin – Learn how to extend Elysia with Plugin

More Patterns

If you feels like exploring more Elysia feature, check out:

• Handler – More pattern on how to send a file, Server Sent Event, etc.
• Web Socket – See how to create Real Time application with Elysia
• Eden – Learn more about Eden, and how to use it effectively
• Open Telemetry – Learn how to monitor your application with Open Telemetry
• Deploy to Production – Learn how to deploy Elysia to production

Integration with Meta Framework

We can also use Elysia with Meta Framework like Nextjs, Nuxt, Astro, etc.

• Astro – Elysia in Astro Endpoint
• Expo – Elysia in Expo API Route
• Nextjs – Elysia in Route Handler
• Nuxt – Elysia in Nuxt Server Route
• SvelteKit – Elysia in SvelteKit Endpoint

Integration with your favorite tool

We have some integration with popular tools:

• AI SDK – Learn how to use Vercel AI SDK with Elysia
• Better Auth – Learn how to use Better Auth with Elysia
• Drizzle – Elysia provides a type safe utility with Drizzle
• Prisma – Learn how to use Prisma with Elysia
• React Email – We can use JSX to create email template

We hope you will love Elysia as much as we do!