What is Redwood?
It is an opinionated, full-stack, serverless web application framework that will allow you to build and deploy JAMstack applications with ease. Imagine a React frontend, statically delivered by CDN, that talks via GraphQL to your backend running on AWS Lambdas around the world, all deployable with just a git push—that's Redwood.
Redwood is a tool in the Frameworks category of a tech stack.
Key Features
Opinionated defaults for formatting, file organization, webpack, Babel, and moreSimple but powerful routing (all routes defined in one file) with dynamic (typed) parameters, constraints, and named route functions (to generate correct URLs)Automatic page-based code-splittingBoilerplate-less GraphQL API constructionCells: a declarative way to fetch data from the backend APIGenerators for pages, layouts, cells, SDL, services, etcScaffold generator for CRUD operations around a specific DB tableForms with easy client- and/or server-side validation and error handlingHot module replacement (HMR) for faster developmentDatabase migrations (via Prisma 2)First class JAMstack-style deployment to Netlify
Redwood Pros & Cons
Pros of Redwood
- ✓Cells
- ✓React+Prisma+GraphQL
- ✓Easy setup + generators
- ✓Storybook integrated development
Cons of Redwood
No cons listed yet.
Redwood Alternatives & Comparisons
What are some alternatives to Redwood?
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.
