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JAWS vs webapp2: What are the differences?

Developers describe JAWS as "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. On the other hand, webapp2 is detailed as "Lightweight Python web framework compatible with Google App Engine’s webapp". webapp2 is a simple. it follows the simplicity of webapp, but improves it in some ways: it adds better URI routing and exception handling, a full featured response object and a more flexible dispatching mechanism.

JAWS and webapp2 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, webapp2 provides the following key features:

Compatible with webapp
Compatible with latest WebOb
Full-featured response object

JAWS is an open source tool with 30.9K GitHub stars and 3.43K GitHub forks. Here's a link to JAWS's open source repository on GitHub.

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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

What is webapp2?

webapp2 is a simple. it follows the simplicity of webapp, but improves it in some ways: it adds better URI routing and exception handling, a full featured response object and a more flexible dispatching mechanism.

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