Redwood - deploy a JAMstack applications with ease

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This is an interesting announcement in the world of Javascript frameworks.

Redwood is an opinionated, full-stack, serverless web application framework that will allow you to build and deploy JAMstack applications with ease. Imagine a React frontend, statically delivered by CDN, that talks via GraphQL to your backend running on AWS Lambdas around the world, all deployable with just a git push —that’s Redwood. By making a lot of decisions for you, Redwood lets you get to work on what makes your application special, instead of wasting cycles choosing and re-choosing various technologies and configurations. Plus, because Redwood is a proper framework, you benefit from continued performance and feature upgrades over time and with minimum effort.

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Another JS framework/library? I’m slowly becoming a grumpy old man :smile:

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Yes, this is the new Ruby on Rails for JS.

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Sails, Meteor/Vulcan and Next?

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Those are old so no good now. :wink:

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I fail to see the appeal. Lot of buzz words, lock-in into AWS technologies. I don’t know, for me there wasn’t anything that jump out as interesting. But maybe I’m just growing more cynical.

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This looks great. I think file based components and the generation stuff makes this super compelling to me.

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The generation is really the highest selling point here, but you can achieve the same thing with http://www.hygen.io/

Without the generators, I feel Meteor is still easier to use. Of course, redwood is targetting non-realtime, SQL backed serverless apps so it’s an entirely different market.

I do think meteor could benefit from built in generators though. meteor g component Navbar, meteor g collection Links etc.

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Just saw this yesterday while googling around. It uses Prisma2 behind the scene for type-safe database access, which is great

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If you’re interested in Redwood I’d really suggest checking out Vulcan (http://vulcanjs.org/) which is basically the same thing (in terms of overall goals at least) but based on Meteor.

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