wasp/web/docs/how-it-works.md

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How it works

At its core, Wasp works like any other language: input files written in the source, higher-level language are fed into the compiler which then produces the code in a target, lower-level language.

This is how it looks in the case of Wasp:

• source: .wasp files along with NodeJS functions and React components.
• compiler: waspc, a program written in Haskell
• target: a web application written in React and NodeJS

Here is also a high-level diagram illustrating the described process: