JAWS vs Next.js: What are the differences?
What is JAWS? Javascript + AWS Stack – A server-free, webapp boilerplate using bleeding-edge AWS services. The Javascript + AWS Stack – A server-free, webapp boilerplate using bleeding-edge AWS services that redefine how to build massively scalable web applications.
What is Next.js? *A small framework for server-rendered universal JavaScript apps *. Next.js is a minimalistic framework for server-rendered React applications.
JAWS and Next.js belong to "Frameworks (Full Stack)" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by JAWS are:
- 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.
On the other hand, Next.js provides the following key features:
- Zero setup. Use the filesystem as an API
- Only JavaScript. Everything is a function
- Automatic server rendering and code splitting
JAWS and Next.js are both open source tools. It seems that Next.js with 38.7K GitHub stars and 4.69K forks on GitHub has more adoption than JAWS with 30.9K GitHub stars and 3.43K GitHub forks.