What Wasp does
Wasp is an open-source, full-stack TypeScript framework that the page describes as a truly full-stack TypeScript framework that just works. It connects React, Node.js and Prisma, and you define the app in .wasp.ts files from which Wasp generates the full-stack code. Named features include a high-level spec for app, auth and routes, full-stack auth with username, email and social login, data models, type-safe RPC, background jobs with cron and retries, email sending, WebSockets, static rendering, simple deployment and a custom HTTP API. The page says Wasp works with any Postgres database and deploys to Fly and Railway. The page shows an MIT License badge and states no pricing.
How Wasp compares with its closest alternatives
All 5 closest alternatives have a free plan, as Wasp does. 2 of the 5 offer an API; FalcoScan's records show none for Wasp. Wasp offers a web app and a command-line tool. Of the alternatives, 4 offer a web app and 1 offers a command-line tool. Wasp was founded in 2022; the alternatives were founded between 2014 and 2023, 1 of them earlier. Wasp is based in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina; none of the 4 alternatives with a known headquarters is in Bosnia and Herzegovina. They are in Sweden, the United States and the Netherlands.