Wasp Beta Launch Week announcement

Its almost here! After almost two years since our Alpha release, countless apps developed, React and Node versions upgraded, and PRs merged were only a day away from Beta!

Were going to follow a launch week format, which means our Beta launch will last for the whole week! Starting with the Product Hunt launch this Sunday (well let you know once were live, so sharpen your upvoting fingers!) well highlight a new feature every day.

Ill try not to spoil too much in advance but were really excited about this - here follows a quick overview of what its gonna look like:

Sunday, Nov 27 - Product Hunt launch event + lets get this party started: Auth

Besides defending our Product Hunt title (we won #1 Product of the Day last time), this time well also have an online party for all of us to celebrate together!

It will be held on our Discord at 9:00 am EST / 15:00 CET - sign up here and make sure to mark yourself as Interested!

Join us to meet the team, attend a relaxed AMA session to learn everything about Wasp, from how it started to development challenges (having fun with Haskell, web dev and compilers) and ideas and plans for the future.

The first feature to announce will be authentication in Wasp! Its easier and cooler than ever, supports 3rd party providers (hint: starts with G), and works smoother than a jar of peanut butter (not the crunchy one of course)!

Monday, Nov 28 - TypeScript support!

When we asked you what was missing in Wasp during our Alpha Testing Program, you were pretty clear:

We heard you (honestly we were missing it too) and now its here! You can write your code in TypeScript and enjoy all the goodies that types bring. Some things already work really well and there are a few for which we still have ideas on how to make them better, but more on that on Tuesday!

Wednesday, Nov 29 - Tailwind support!

Its beautiful! Another highly anticipated featured that also comes with Beta - support for Tailwind CSS framework! Since it has an additional build step it didnt work out-of-the-box with Alpha, but now it works like a breeze (see what I did here?)!

Honestly, having used it for designing our new Beta landing page I can really see why it gained so much popularity. So long, making up names for classes, containers, and wrappers!

Thursday, Nov 30 - Optimistic updates!

Stop glitching, dang it!

You know that feeling when you move your Trello card Try Wasp Beta from Todo column to Done column and everything works super smoothly without any glitches? Thats because of optimistic updates! You may not need it often but if you needed and it wasnt possible youd feel really sad.

Well, thats why Alpha is called Alpha and Beta is called Beta . Long story short, now its possible to do it in Wasp and its also super easy and clean! We're actually very optimistic youll feel really good about implementing optimistic updates for your app in Wasp.

Friday, Dec 1 - Improved IDE support, tooling and Wasp LSP!

If you like types in TypeScript (and in general), then you will also enjoy Wasp! Our DSL is also a typed language which means it can report errors in compile time, e.g. in case you havent configured your route correctly. And now all that happens directly in your editor!

Beta brings LSP, Language Server for Wasp that works with VS Code (support for other editors coming soon! Im VIM user myself so take a guess :D). That means improved syntax highlighting, code autocompletion and live error reporting - everything youd expect from a language!

Wasp LSP in action!

Saturday, Dec 2 - Grande Finale + #1 Wasp Hackathon!(Waspathon ?)

I dont want to reveal too much in advance, but yep there will be a hackathon, yep there will be cool rewards (at least we think so) and yep it will be awesome! Well officially announce it as we end the launch week, and equipped with all the new features Beta brought well switch into the hacking mode!

Its our first hackathon and we cant wait to tell you more about it (ok, I admit, were still working on it) and see what you beeld with Wasp!

Recap

• We are launching Beta this Sunday, Nov 27, on Product Hunt at 1am PST / 4am EST / 10am CET - make sure to upvote and comment (anything counts, even go guys!) when you can
• Beta brings a ton of new exciting features - well highlight one each day of the following week
• On Saturday, Dec 2, well announce a hackathon - our first ever!

Thats it, Waspeteers - keep buzzing as always and see you soon on the other side!