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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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?
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.
Django
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
ASP.NET
.NET is a developer platform made up of tools, programming languages, and libraries for building many different types of applications.
Laravel
It is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. It attempts to take the pain out of development by easing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.
Android SDK
Android provides a rich application framework that allows you to build innovative apps and games for mobile devices in a Java language environment.