Graphql
RedwoodGraphQL
Overview
Redwood is an opinionated, full-stack, JavaScript/TypeScript web application framework designed to keep you moving fast as your app grows from a side project to a startup. It provides a React frontend that communicates with a custom GraphQL API, with database operations handled by Prisma. Redwood also includes integrated testing with Jest, logging with Pino, and a UI component catalog with Storybook. It offers easy setup for authentication (such as Auth0) and CSS frameworks (like Tailwind CSS). Redwood's architecture allows for deployment to serverless providers (such as Netlify or Vercel) or traditional server and container providers (like AWS or Render) with minimal code changes.
By making decisions for you, Redwood saves time and effort, allowing you to focus on the unique aspects of your application. It is a proper framework, which means you'll receive performance and feature upgrades over time with minimal effort. Redwood is an open-source project initiated by Tom Preston-Werner, co-founder of GitHub and creator of various popular technologies such as Jekyll and Gravatar.
Features
- Opinionated defaults for formatting, file organization, Webpack, Babel, and more
- Simple but powerful routing with dynamic parameters, custom types, and named route functions
- Automatic page-based code-splitting
- Boilerplate-less GraphQL API construction
- Cells: a declarative way to fetch data from the backend API
- Generators for pages, layouts, cells, SDL, serverless functions, and more
Summary
Redwood is a powerful and opinionated full-stack JavaScript/TypeScript web application framework. It provides a convenient architecture for building web applications with React, GraphQL, and Prisma. Redwood's features such as automatic code-splitting, boilerplate-less GraphQL API construction, and declarative data fetching with cells make development efficient and straightforward. With support for serverless and traditional server/container deployments, Redwood offers flexibility when it comes to hosting your application. Overall, Redwood aims to provide a streamlined developer experience while maintaining high performance.
- React
React is a widely used JavaScript library for building user interfaces and single-page applications. It follows a component-based architecture and uses a virtual DOM to efficiently update and render UI components
- Prisma
Prisma is a server-side library that helps developers read and write data to the database in an intuitive, efficient and safe way.
- Fullstack
A fullstack boilerplate provides a starter application that includes both frontend and backend. It should include database, auth, payments, user roles and other backend services to build a fully featured saas or webapps.
- Apollo
Apollo is an open-source platform for building GraphQL APIs that connects with any data source. It provides a powerful set of tools and features for developers, including client and server-side caching, real-time data synchronization, and a seamless integration with popular frontend frameworks.
- Eslint
ESLint is a linter for JavaScript that analyzes code to detect and report on potential problems and errors, as well as enforce consistent code style and best practices, helping developers to write cleaner, more maintainable code.
- Graphql
A website that uses GraphQL as a query language to manage data fetching and state management. This includes features such as a strongly typed schema, client-side caching, and declarative data fetching to streamline data management and optimize website performance.
- Typescript
TypeScript is a superset of JavaScript, providing optional static typing, classes, interfaces, and other features that help developers write more maintainable and scalable code. TypeScript's static typing system can catch errors at compile-time, making it easier to build and maintain large applications.