Tech stack

The tech stack that Volca is built on was chosen with the following in mind:

Speed - When building a SaaS product, you want to be able to ship new features to customers quickly
Reliability - To make sure your users keep using your product, you want to be using reliable and proven technology
Scalability - Start from 0 and scale to thousands of users without worrying about manually scaling your infrastructure
Extensibility - Start with a simple project structure that a single developer can navigate and extend it to a development environment that can support hundreds of developers
Security - Security creates trust with your users. Build on a foundation with established and tested security services
Cost - Don't spend hundreds of dollars up front on infrastructure, let your costs scale with the number of customers

Read more about the tools and libraries we use to power Volca below.

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What?	Usage	Why?
TypeScript	Language	TypeScript enables you to write type safe frontend and backend applications while still using the vast resources that come with JavaScript.
Yarn	Package Manager	Fast package management with monorepo support
Stripe	Payments	Stripe is one of the largest digital payment providers that provides hosted pages for payments and subscription management

What?	Usage	Why?
React	Framework	React is the most popular library for frontend framework and has a strong developer community.
Chakra	UI Library	Simple, modular and customizable UI components.
TypeScript	Language	TypeScript enables you to write type safe frontend and backend applications while still using the vast resources that come with JavaScript.

What?	Usage	Why?
Postgresql	Database	Relational database management systems with SQL compliance.
Koa	API framework	Simple exposure of API actions with error handling and middlewares.
Knex	Query builder for SQL	Easily perform secure database queries without writing pure SQL
Serverless	API infrastructure framework	Define API infrastructure as code and deploy it through CLI