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JAWS

Javascript + AWS Stack – A server-free, webapp boilerplate using bleeding-edge AWS services
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What is JAWS?

The Javascript + AWS Stack – A server-free, webapp boilerplate using bleeding-edge AWS services that redefine how to build massively scalable web applications
JAWS is a tool in the Frameworks (Full Stack) category of a tech stack.
JAWS is an open source tool with GitHub stars and GitHub forks. Here’s a link to JAWS's open source repository on GitHub

Who uses JAWS?

Developers
4 developers on StackShare have stated that they use JAWS.

JAWS Integrations

JavaScript, Amazon S3, AWS Lambda, Amazon DynamoDB, and Amazon API Gateway are some of the popular tools that integrate with JAWS. Here's a list of all 5 tools that integrate with JAWS.
Pros of JAWS
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Heroku

JAWS's Features

  • Use No Servers: Never deal with scaling/deploying/maintaing/monitoring servers again.
  • Isolated Components: The JAWS back-end is comprised entirely of AWS Lambda Functions.
  • Scale Infinitely: A back-end comprised of Lambda functions comes with a ton of concurrency and you can easily enable multi-region redundancy.
  • Be Cheap As Possible: Lambda functions run only when they are called, and you only pay for when they are run.

JAWS Alternatives & Comparisons

What are some alternatives to JAWS?
JavaScript
JavaScript is most known as the scripting language for Web pages, but used in many non-browser environments as well such as node.js or Apache CouchDB. It is a prototype-based, multi-paradigm scripting language that is dynamic,and supports object-oriented, imperative, and functional programming styles.
Python
Python is a general purpose programming language created by Guido Van Rossum. Python is most praised for its elegant syntax and readable code, if you are just beginning your programming career python suits you best.
Node.js
Node.js uses an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient, perfect for data-intensive real-time applications that run across distributed devices.
HTML5
HTML5 is a core technology markup language of the Internet used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web. As of October 2014 this is the final and complete fifth revision of the HTML standard of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C). The previous version, HTML 4, was standardised in 1997.
PHP
Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.
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JAWS's Followers
49 developers follow JAWS to keep up with related blogs and decisions.