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Wasp Has a Free Full-Stack Framework — Build React + Node Apps in Half the Code

Wasp is a full-stack web framework — define your app in a .wasp config file, get React frontend + Node backend + database + auth.

What You Get for Free

  • Declarative config — define routes, queries, actions in .wasp file
  • Auth built-in — email, Google, GitHub login in 3 lines
  • Full-stack type safety — shared types between client and server
  • Database — Prisma ORM integrated
  • Real-time — WebSocket support built-in
  • Jobs — background and scheduled jobs
  • Email sending — built-in email support
  • One-command deploywasp deploy fly deploys to Fly.io
  • AI-generated apps — describe your app, get code

Quick Start

curl -sSL https://get.wasp-lang.dev/installer.sh | sh
wasp new my-app
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// main.wasp
app MyApp {
  title: "My SaaS",
  auth: {
    userEntity: User,
    methods: { email: {}, google: {} }
  }
}

route DashboardRoute { path: "/dashboard", to: DashboardPage }
page DashboardPage { authRequired: true, component: import { Dashboard } from "@src/pages/Dashboard" }

query getTasks { fn: import { getTasks } from "@src/queries", entities: [Task] }
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Why Developers Switch from Next.js + Prisma + NextAuth

Building full-stack Next.js apps requires gluing 5+ libraries:

  • Auth in 3 lines — not 200 lines of NextAuth config
  • One config — routes, queries, auth in .wasp file
  • Background jobs — built-in, not a separate Bull/Redis setup
  • Full-stack types — client knows server return types automatically

A developer spent 2 weeks setting up Next.js + Prisma + NextAuth + Tailwind for a SaaS boilerplate. With Wasp: same functionality in 3 days, 60% less code.

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