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Develop web apps in React & Node.js with no boilerplate
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What is Wasp?

Wasp (Web Application Specification Language) is an extensible DSL (domain-specific language) for building modern web apps with less code. Concepts such as app, page, user, login, frontend, production, etc. are baked into the language, bringing a new level of expressiveness and allowing you to get more work done with fewer lines of code.
Wasp is a tool in the Languages category of a tech stack.
Wasp is an open source tool with 11K GitHub stars and 1.1K GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Wasp's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses Wasp?

Wasp's Features

  • No more endless configuration files. Create a production-ready web app with just a few lines of code - we will set you up with all the best defaults
  • Move fast using Wasp's declarative language, but also drop down to js/html/css... when you require more control
  • f Wasp becomes too limiting for you, simply eject and continue with the human-readable source code following industry best-practices

Wasp Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to Wasp?
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
PHP
Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
Java
Java is a programming language and computing platform first released by Sun Microsystems in 1995. There are lots of applications and websites that will not work unless you have Java installed, and more are created every day. Java is fast, secure, and reliable. From laptops to datacenters, game consoles to scientific supercomputers, cell phones to the Internet, Java is everywhere!
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