SST: The Most Underrated Serverless Framework You Need to Discover

• sst

  179 19,951 9.9 TypeScript

  Build modern full-stack applications on AWS

  

So you start building using serverless principles, and you discover the Serverless framework. Great ! You will discover here another option, that I consider superior in multiple area, the Serverless Stack (SST). I will first introduce some basic concepts for beginners, then I will expose the main difference between the solutions. Let's dig into this!

• Previous Serverless Version 0.5.x

  90 46,050 8.2 JavaScript

  ⚡ Serverless Framework – Use AWS Lambda and other managed cloud services to build apps that auto-scale, cost nothing when idle, and boast radically low maintenance.

  

This particular framework was introduced back in 2015 (under the name JAWS, source: Wikipedia). The project have an astonishing 40k stars on Github! This framework offer a high number of features:

• SurveyJS

  surveyjs.io sponsored

  Open-Source JSON Form Builder to Create Dynamic Forms Right in Your App. With SurveyJS form UI libraries, you can build and style forms in a fully-integrated drag & drop form builder, render them in your JS app, and store form submission data in any backend, inc. PHP, ASP.NET Core, and Node.js.

  

• serverless-graphql

  215 2,708 0.0 JavaScript

  Serverless GraphQL Examples for AWS AppSync and Apollo

  

So you start building using serverless principles, and you discover the Serverless framework. Great ! You will discover here another option, that I consider superior in multiple area, the Serverless Stack (SST). I will first introduce some basic concepts for beginners, then I will expose the main difference between the solutions. Let's dig into this!

• examples

  23 11,255 3.3 JavaScript

  Serverless Examples – A collection of boilerplates and examples of serverless architectures built with the Serverless Framework on AWS Lambda, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Functions, and more. (by serverless)

  

Here is an example file (from serverless/examples repo):

• aws-cdk

  263 11,137 9.9 TypeScript

  The AWS Cloud Development Kit is a framework for defining cloud infrastructure in code

  

The framework is relying on CDK which is an AWS tool designed to "define your cloud application resources using familiar programming languages". Behind the scene CDK is allowing you to write code that will be translated to CloudFormation template files. It's generally much more compact to write CDK that the equivalent CloudFormation template file!

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

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