Wasp-lang (Beta) - Develop web apps in React & Node.js with no boilerplate

I used Wasp to win a hackathon this year - it was such a pleasure to use! I’ve done plenty of hackathons before where I’ve built small SaaS apps, and there’s just so much time wasted setting up common utilities - stuff like user management, databases, routing, etc. Wasp handled all that for me and let me build out our web app in record time. Also, deploying the wasp app was incredibly easy - I didn’t have time to stand up full infrastructure in the 2 day hackathon and don’t have an infra/devops background, but I had something running on Netlify within an hour. Other projects at the hackathon struggled to do this, and putting access in the hands of the judges certainly helped get us 1st place. @matijash @martin_sosic keep up the great work.

Hi Product Hunt! 👋 We're Martin and Matija, founders of Wasp 🐝. Almost two years ago we introduced the Alpha version of Wasp and it ended up as the #1 product of the day! Since then, thanks to your continuous feedback and amazing support, Wasp has matured and we are proud to introduce you to our Beta! 🎉🎉 💡 What is Wasp? You can think of Wasp as a full-stack web framework for React & Node.js. We solve the common problems you face when you start developing a web app - choosing all the parts of the stack, figuring out how to stitch them together in the best way, adding auth, running cron jobs, ... Wasp also makes it super easy to work with and sync data models across the entire stack (front-end, back-end, database). You don't even have to define and deal with any kind of CRUD API - Wasp will do that for you under the hood. 🦉 Who is it for? Speaking to developers we realized many of them just want to build, and they’ll use whichever tool helps them best achieve their goals. They don’t care that the library being used for making HTTP requests is 2kb bigger and builds 10ms slower than some new alternative. They just want to be sure they have all the best practices in place and that their choices won't come back to haunt them once their project grows. If you can relate to that, then Wasp is for you. We know there are plenty of great solutions for developers today (frameworks, BaaS-es, code scaffolders, ...) but Wasp is probably the fastest one to get started with, and with the least amount of code. 🍜 What's the secret sauce? The main reason for that is Wasp's unique twist on web frameworks - a config language (DSL) that works alongside your React & Node.js code. It allowed us to drastically reduce the amount of boilerplate and simplify the developer experience. For example, full-stack authentication with both user/pass and Google methods takes only 8 lines of code. In the future, the language approach could enable us to do some really exciting things such as supporting multiple frameworks and languages (even at the same time) and having full control over the generated code, introducing optimizations, etc. 🏘 What can I build with Wasp? Pretty much any web app with a database! Anything you'd build with React & Node.js by themselves you can build with Wasp. Think SaaS, side projects, internal tools, hackathons, ... To see what others are building with Wasp, take a look here: Wasp showcase gallery With the intro out of the way, let's see what's new in Beta: 🔑 Full-stack auth Log in with your username & password or via Google! Other providers are also coming soon. 🟦 TypeScript support Write your code in TypeScript, both on the client and server! We're also migrating our whole codebase and adding new types every day. 💨 Tailwind support Just add two config files and you are ready to use Tailwind in your project! ⏳ Running Async Jobs Send emails, crunch data every night and build reports or anything that shouldn't be a part of a typical request-response cycle. Powered by pg-boss, zero setup required. 🥛 Optimistic updates support Wasp will by default propagate your data model changes across the stack. Still, in some cases, you might want more control over that flow for the sake of smoother UX - that is now easy to achieve with Wasp! 📟 Wasp Language Server Wasp now has its own LSP for VS Code (other editors coming soon)! That means improved syntax highlighting, code snippets, autocompletion, and error reporting. Everything you'd expect from a language! 🐝🐝 Since our launch two years ago, we've been relentlessly pushing Wasp forward. We went through Y Combinator and we've been building Wasp as a fully-remote team of 6 language and web dev enthusiasts. Thank you, and we're looking forward to your feedback and questions! If you want to learn more about out Beta Launch Week (Spoiler alert: there will be a Hackathon!), check it out here: Wasp Beta Launch week announcement Buzz on 🐝, Matija, Martin and the Wasp team

Congrats on the launch Wasp team! I've known Matija and Martin for a while and being a big fan of Haskell myself. I was excited about them using it for building the compiler behind the Wasp language. So cool to see Beta live, keep up the good work!

@matijash Congratulations on the launch!!!🚀 It looks really cool. I will surely give this a try!!

Great work @martin_sosic & @matijash and the rest of the team!! 🙌💪 Great to see all the improvements you added! Keep up the awesome work 🍻 Can't wait to see 🐝 🚀 🌙

Great work, guys!

I spent the one weekend building with Wasp and it was amazing, a real pleasure. I normally develop in Vue.js, but in a weekend I had time to learn Wasp, React and finish a full-stack app (only missing styling). This would have been impossible before. So glad to see Wasp in Beta! 🍻

For a developer like myself who is building a lot of different web applications, I know how much time I am losing just setting up the project without a single line of business logic being written. That is why I got excited about testing Wasp because all of the time I will save up and being able to present MVPs to clients faster. I noticed that Wasp reminds of Meteor.js which is great! Is there a way to share Wasp code as libraries/packages so it can be added to existing projects?

I have known Martin & Matija for long time and love what they are doing, looking forward to seeing how Wasp develops in the future. Go Wasp! 🚀

Congrats on the Launch guys!

A lot of hard work is represented here, nice job all! And we are lucky to have such a growing, smart, kind, and fun community to engage with daily. Cheers to Beta, and on to the next milestone! We can't wait to see what you will build.

If it weren't for Wasp, my app Amicus would probably have never been finished. I estimate it saved me 100+ hours from the start and I'm still amazed that I did all this work as a team-of-one. Being able to quickly change existing features and add the new ones is the biggest advantage of Wasp for me. Wasp is my favorite producthunt find!

Neat! Checked this via Sasha Krsmanovic's recommendation. My startup leaddelta.com is built using React/Node, and I'll share this with my team. Thanks for shipping. 🔥

What a nice surprise! Typescript support sounds like a real step up 💪

Very cool, congrats on the launch. Wish I had wasp when I was trying to figure out how to build a web app from scratch 😅 Keep up the great work!

Wow Beta is here! Really excited to see this launch. I have been following for quite some time and I'm really excited Wasp progressing so well! I know it's probably way down the priority list, but are you planning to add support for multiple backends? I've figured I've built many small apps in backend and frontend is always super ugly because I don't bother connecting React app to the the Flask app 🙈. Having something "works out of the box", but talks python in backend would be a great workflow.

I love what Beta looks like and it's amazing to see all these new features! Wasp really looks like something that could make developers' lives a lot easier. Exciting times!

This is great new. Congratulations to the Wasp team. I am elated to be a contributor to the Wasp project.

Congrats on the launch guys! Way to go & super excited to see where you will take wasp next 🚀

Wasp is a bit of a mindfuck when you’re used to coding web apps in a distinct front-end, back-end, infrastructure kind of way. It both abstracts away a lot, while still keeping you in control. It's another very promising new wrench in your toolbox. Use it wisely. The more I think about it, the more I feel it can have a great future. It sort of took over a week to really get how much I was able to achieve in just 30 minutes with it. Pretty mind-blowing! Keep going @matijash @martin_sosic, we need more tools like this in our lives. 👏