Hello Waspeteers,
We are very happy to share that Wasp Alpha is out and ready for you to try!
During the last six months we put in a lot of hard work to bring Wasp from the prototype you saw previously to Alpha that you can actually try out. We are super excited to get your feedback and for you to get involved!
Just to give you a taste, this is how a minimal app built in Wasp looks like:
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todoApp.wasp
app todoApp {
title: "ToDo App"
}
route "/" -> page Main
page Main {
component: import Main from "@ext/Main"
}
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ext/Main.js
import React from 'react'
export default () => <span> Hello World! </span>
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And this is all there is! From these two files Wasp will generate full front-end and back-end code for your app.
With that said, there are two main ways for you to get involved:
Try Wasp out & let us know what you think
It takes only four commands in the terminal to install Wasp, create a new app and run it - check out our Getting Started guide.
After that, try Building a TodoApp with Wasp and you can also give a look to the rest of the docs.
Let us know what you like the best, what needs to be improved and what you'd like to see next - simply reply to this email, join us on Discord or submit an issue on Github.
Contribute
Wasp is an open-source project and we are looking to get more developers involved, both to share ideas and to code together.
Wasp compiler is written in Haskell (don't worry, we are sticking with Boring Haskell, so this is a great opportunity to get started) and the generated code is in Javascript (soon Typescript as well). If you are interested in any of these topics (Haskell, compilers, latest JS/TS web dev practices), or you just have ideas on how you would like Wasp to work in the future, reach out!
Check our list of good first issues, join our channel on Discord and let's chat about what interests you.
What next?
We are excited about this version of Wasp because you can finally try it out yourself and start building things with us. But, we are still at the beginning of our journey and there is much more we want to do.
Check our Vision section in the docs if you would like to learn more.
Thank you again for your support - without you, we would never be where we are today.
Best,
Wasp team (Martin & Matija)
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