Wasp (**W**eb **A**pplication **Sp**ecification Language) is an extensible [DSL](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domain-specific_language) (domain-specific language) for building modern web apps with less code.
Concepts such as *app*, *page*, *user*, *login*, *frontend*, *production*, etc. are baked into the language, bringing a new level of expressiveness and allowing you to get more work done with fewer lines of code.
Source files (`.wasp`, `.js(x)`, `.css`, ...) are compiled (transpiled) by `waspc` (Wasp compiler) into the web technology stack of your choice (e.g. React + Redux + ExpressJS + ...).
- **Quick start**: Due to its expressiveness, you can create and deploy a production-ready web app from scratch with very few lines of concise, consistent, declarative code.
- **Flexible**: When you need more control than Wasp offers, you can write code in existing technologies such as js/html/css/... and combine it with Wasp code!
The language itself supports a narrow set of features for now, not enough for serious web app development, but we believe it is a good basis to build upon.
The next step is to expand the language (and compiler) so it can serve the role of a smart code generator - it will still not have enough features to keep you from ejecting for a very long time, but it will be enough to give you a quick start.
While the idea is to support multiple web tech stacks in the future, right now we are focusing on the specific stack: React + react-query, NodeJS + ExpressJS, Prisma. We might yet change that as time goes, taking trends into account, but for now, this is serving us well for the purpose of developing compiler and language.
The best place to start is to check out [waspc/](waspc/), where you can find detailed steps for the first time contributors + technical details about the Wasp compiler.
Even if you don't plan to submit any code, just joining the discussion on discord [![Discord](https://img.shields.io/discord/686873244791210014?label=chat%20on%20discord)](https://discord.gg/rzdnErX) and giving your feedback is already great and helps a lot (motivates us and helps us figure out how to shape Wasp)!