RedwoodJS

[coryhouse]

Redwood is designed for startups. So their play is to get consulting for startups that use RedwoodJS.
 
Good when you’re going to have multiple front end clients (since graphql is built in)
No SSR for now but hoping to add
Mocking data is easy.
Might choose for community of startups using it. 
Doesn’t have server side power of next or remix. It’s traditional client side rendered, but can pre-render and rehydrate on client. 

Original Pitch was "Rails for JS". Also Used to be "full stack for the JAM stack". 

Redwood is no longer specific to Serverless. Can deploy to Vercel, Netlfy, EC2. 

Why Redwood over alternatives?

• More integrated and opinionated like rails. Includes graphql and prisma storybook routing, jest security by default, declarative data fetching via cells. Everything you need to do a real startup. 

What's flexible?

Swapping out auth or deploy targets is easy. Can ignore cells. Swapping out react graphql and prisma wouldn’t make sense. They’re foundational. 
Has abstraction that allows reusing resolver logic outside of graphql.

Who's using it?

About 30 startups are using so far as of 5/2022