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title: Vision
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With Wasp, we want to make developing web apps easy and enjoyable, for novices and experts in web development alike.
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Ideal we are striving for is that programming in Wasp feels like describing an app using a human language - like writing a specification document where you describe primarily your requirements and as little implementation details as possible.
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Creating a new production-ready web app should be easy and deploying it to production should be straightforward.
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That is why we believe Wasp needs to be a programming language (DSL) and not a library - we want to capture all parts of the web app into one integrated system that is perfectly tailored just for that purpose.
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On the other hand, we believe that trying to capture every single detail in one language would not be reasonable.
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There are solutions out there that work very well for the specific task they aim to solve (React for web components, CSS/HTML for design/markup, JS/TS for logic, ...) and we don't want to replace them with Wasp.
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Instead, we see Wasp as a declarative "glue" code uniting all these specific solutions and providing a higher-level notion of the web app above them.
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Wasp is still early in its development and therefore far from where we imagine it will be in the future.
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This is what we imagine:
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- **Declarative, static language** with simple basic rules and **that understands a lot of web app concepts** - "horizontal language". Supports multiple files/modules, libraries.
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- **Integrates seamlessly with the most popular technologies** for building specific, more complex parts of the web app (React, CSS, JS, ...).
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They can be used inline (mixed with Wasp code) or provided via external files.
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- **Has hatches (escape mechanisms) that allow you to customize your web app** in all the right places, but remain hidden until you need them.
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- **Entity (data model) is a first-class citizen** - defined via custom Wasp syntax and it integrates very closely with the rest of the features, serving as one of the central concepts around which everything is built.
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- **Out of the box** support for CRUD UI based on the Entities, to get you quickly going, but also customizable to some level.
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- **"Smart" operations (queries and actions)** that in most cases automatically figure out when to update, and if not it is easy to define custom logic to compensate for that. User worries about client-server gap as little as possible.
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- Support, directly in Wasp, for **declaratively defining simple components and operations**.
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- Besides Wasp as a programming language, there will also be a **visual builder that generates/edits Wasp code**, allowing non-developers to participate in development. Since Wasp is declarative, we imagine such builder to naturally follow from Wasp language.
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- **Server side rendering, caching, packaging, security**, ... -> all those are taken care of by Wasp.
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You tell Wasp what you want, and Wasp figures out how to do it.
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- As **simple deployment to production/staging** as it gets.
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- While it comes with the official implementation(s), **Wasp language will not be coupled with the single implementation**.
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Others can provide implementations that compile to different web app stacks.
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