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About Waku

Waku is a minimal React framework designed to provide a lightweight and enjoyable developer experience, while fully supporting the latest React 19 features, including server components and actions. It enables full-stack composability by allowing developers to flexibly move server-client boundaries with a single line of code, simplifying the development of full-stack React applications compared to maintaining separate backend and frontend codebases. This framework is particularly well-suited for marketing sites, headless commerce platforms, and general web applications. It emphasizes smaller client bundle sizes by leveraging server components. Waku supports both static prerendering (SSG) and server-side rendering (SSR) for layouts and pages, integrating seamlessly with server and client components. While it offers powerful patterns for modern React rendering, it's noted that larger enterprise applications might benefit from heavier frameworks. Waku introduces a clear distinction between server components (which handle server-side logic, data fetching, and can access the file system without being included in the client bundle) and client components (which use traditional React features like state and interactivity and run in the browser). It also defines shared components that can be used in both environments. The framework is currently recommended for non-production projects, with an open invitation for contributors.