Echo JS 0.11.0

Hello, Stacktape creator and CEO here.

As a full-stack developer, I was looking for an easy way to deploy and host my applications for years.

I could go with Kubernetes and Terraform. But the complexity of running this in production can be overwhelming even for a team of dedicated DevOps specialists. Or I could go with Heroku. But I’m not willing to pay 5-10 times more for my infrastructure just because my app was easier to deploy. I could also choose Serverless framework. But If my use case requires more than Lambda functions, I need to read through 100s of pages of AWS documentation figuring out how to configure VPCs, Security groups, Route tables and more…

Until now, I could choose either "powerful" or "easy". Today, after 2.5 years of development, I’m happy to introduce another option.

Stacktape is a DevOps-free cloud framework that’s both powerful and easy at the same time. It allows you to develop, deploy and run applications on AWS. With 98% less configuration and without the need for DevOps or Cloud expertise.

Unlike with other solutions, you can deploy both serverless (AWS lambda-based) and more traditional (container-based) applications. Stacktape also supports 20+ infrastructure components, including SQL databases, Load balancers, MongoDB Atlas clusters, Batch-jobs, Kafka topics, Redis clusters & more.

Besides infrastructure management, Stacktape handles source code packaging, deployments, local/remote development, and much more. It also comes with a VScode extension and local development studio (GUI).

Stacktape is a IaaC tool. The configuration can be written in YAML, JSON, or Typescript. A typical production-grade REST API is ~30 lines of config (compared to ~600-800 lines of CloudFormation/Terraform). The deployment can be done using a CLI or a programmatic SDK.

I’ll be very happy if you give it a try and let me know what you think.