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wasp reviews and mentions

• Why design matters for a web framework: a 7-year evolution
  2 projects | dev.to | 20 Jul 2026

  Wasp is a full-stack web framework for React and Node.js (imagine Rails for TypeScript, but with frontend included and wired up out-of-the-box), and we've been building it for a little over five years (as a full-time thing). For almost all of that time, we saw design and "branding" as something we shouldn't spend too much time on.

• A gentle intro to npm workspaces, with visuals
  1 project | dev.to | 7 Apr 2026

  I am a founding engineer at Wasp - a full-stack TypeScript framework based on React, Node.js, and Prisma. Like Rails, but for JavaScript. A Wasp app is built as a multi-package setup - frontend, backend and shared code all live in a single repo as separate packages managed by npm workspaces.

• What's the Best Way to Vibe Code a SaaS in 2026?
  2 projects | dev.to | 26 Mar 2026

  Open SaaS is free, and open-source. It's powered by Wasp — a batteries-included full-stack framework for React, Node.js, and Prisma apps.

• Returning to Rails in 2026
  4 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Mar 2026

  > However having worked with Typescript for 8 years now... I'm not sure I could go back to Ruby without types.

  Very true for me as well. I've never worked with Ruby but feel the same way about Django.

  Btw, if you're looking for a "Rails but with TypeScript," my colleagues and I are working on almost just that: https://wasp.sh/.

  The main difference, besides the ecosystem, is that we're more in the "configuration over convention" camp. Wasp has a simple DSL for specifying said configuration, but it's about to be replaced with a TypeScript file.

  Wasp is still in beta and nowhere near Rails-level polish. But, depending on your early adopter tendencies, you might find it interesting regardless. If you do try it out, please reach out and share your thoughts.

• What Are the Best Full-stack Web App Frameworks in 2026?
  5 projects | dev.to | 2 Mar 2026

  Wasp brings the batteries-included experience of Laravel/Rails to the JS/TS ecosystem, with the strongest AI-coding compatibility of the five.

• Git is a file system. We need a database for the code
  3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 15 Feb 2026

  We've tackled this problem slightly differently where I work. We have AI agents contribute in a large legacy codebase, and without proper guidance, the agents quickly get lost or reimplement existing functionality.

  To help the agents understand the codebase, we indexed our code into a graph database using an AST, allowing the agent to easily find linked pages, features, databases, tests, etc from any one point in the code, which helped it produce much more accurate plans with less human intervention and guidance. This is combined with semantic search, where we've indexed the code based on our application's terminology, so when an agent is asked to investigate a task or bug for a specific feature, it'll find the place in the code that implements that feature, and can navigate the graph of dependencies from there to get the big picture.

  We provide these tools to the coding agents via MCP and it has worked really well for us. Devs and QAs can find the blast radius of bugs and critical changes very quickly, and the first draft quality of AI generated plans requires much less feedback and corrections for larger changes.

  In our case, I doubt that a general purpose AST would work as well. It might be better than a simple grep, especially for indirect dependencies or relationships. But IMO, it'd be far more interesting to start looking at application frameworks or even programming languages that provide this direct traversability out of the box. I remember when reading about Wasp[0] that I thought it would be interesting to see it go this way, and provide tooling specifically for AI agents.

  [0] https://wasp.sh/

• Turn Claude Code into a Fullstack web app expert 🔌
  3 projects | dev.to | 23 Dec 2025

  On one hand, Wasp is built on top of popular tools that developers (and AI) know and love, like React, ExpressJS, Prisma, and Tanstack Query. Because of this it may sometimes defer to building directly with those tools rather than leveraging Wasp.

• Introduction to Swarm: Creating Custom Plugins
  3 projects | dev.to | 18 Nov 2025

  In Part 2, we explored how Swarm's Wasp plugin accelerates Wasp application development by generating context-aware boilerplate code. Now, let's dive deeper into Swarm's extensibility by building a plugin for Next.js from scratch. We'll create a route generator that supports Next.js's flexible routing system, including App Router, Pages Router, dynamic routes, and route groups.

• Introduction to Swarm: Building full-stack apps with Wasp
  2 projects | dev.to | 16 Nov 2025

  I'll be referencing the kitchen-sink example project from the Wasp repository throughout this article. It's a comprehensive example that features all major Wasp features, so it serves as a good reference point to understand how Swarm works.

• Introduction to Swarm: an extensible Typescript code generation framework
  2 projects | dev.to | 16 Nov 2025

  Before diving into Swarm itself, it's worth sharing the context that led to its creation. While researching framework options for a side project, I discovered Wasp, a full-stack web development framework, through their OpenSaaS starter template. I'd been looking at various paid SaaS starter templates at the time, but Wasp's offering stood out because it was free and included genuinely useful features out of the box.

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