138: Tom Preston-Werner - Building Full-Stack JS Apps with Redwood.js

Topics include:

• What does it mean for Redwood to be a JAMStack framework?
• What does the React layer look like? What’s new, and what’s leveraging existing community tools?
• Why Redwood ships with it’s own routing layer
• What “cells” are in Redwood, and how they aim to provide a declarative abstraction on top of data fetching
• How Redwood tries to provide clear decoupling behind the front-end and back-end, even though it is providing a full-stack solution
• What “services” are in Redwood
• Using Prisma 2 to fetch data from your database in your services
• What database solutions exist today that work well with Redwood in a serverless environment?

Links:

• Redwood.js homepage
• PredictCovid.com, a Redwood app in production
• Example blog application built with Redwood
• Prisma

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