Primate

Polymorphic development platform. To start read guide.

Why Primate?

Mix and match the best web tech, in one stack

Primate is a frontend and backend-agnostic tool, allowing you to seamlessly integrate and start coding within any major frontend framework and several backend languages, eliminating the constraints of being tied to specific options like Next, Nuxt, or others. Primate runs on Node, Deno and Bun with the same codebase.

Supported backends

• Go
• JavaScript
• Python
• Ruby
• TypeScript

Supported frontends

• Angular
• Eta
• Handlebars
• HTML
• HTMX
• Markdown
• Marko
• React
• Solid
• Svelte
• Voby
• Vue
• Web Components

Supported databases

• MongoDB
• MySQL
• Postgresql
• SQLite
• SurrealDB

Packages

Package	Description
primate	Primate framework
@primate/core	Core framework
@primate/go	Go backend
@primate/python	Python backend
@primate/ruby	Ruby backend
@primate/typescript	TypeScript backend
@primate/angular	Angular frontend
@primate/eta	Eta frontend
@primate/handlebars	Handlebars frontend
@primate/html	HTML frontend
@primate/htmx	HTMX frontend
@primate/markdown	Markdown frontend
@primate/marko	Marko frontend
@primate/react	React frontend
@primate/solid	Solid frontend
@primate/svelte	Svelte frontend
@primate/voby	Voby frontend
@primate/vue	Vue frontend
@primate/webc	Web Components frontend
@primate/store	Databases
@primate/mongodb	MongoDB database
@primate/mysql	MySQL database
@primate/postgresql	PostgreSQL database
@primate/sqlite	SQLite database
@primate/surrealdb	SurrealDB database
@primate/types	Schema validation
@primate/session	User sessions
@primate/i18n	Internationalization
@primate/native	Compile native apps
website	Primate website
create-primate	GUI for creating Primate apps

Comparison with other frameworks

Feature	Next	Nuxt	SvelteKit	Primate
Backend	JS, TS	JS, TS	JS, TS	JS, TS, Go, Python, Ruby
Frontend	React	Vue	Svelte	React, Vue, Svelte, Solid, Angular, HTMX, Handlebars, WC
Runtime	Node	Node	Node	Node, Deno, Bun
I18N	✓	✓	✗	@primate/i18n
Head Component	✓	✓	✗	React, Svelte, Solid
Route guards	✗	✗	✗	✓
Recursive layouts	✓	✓	✓	✓
Data stores/ORM	✗	✗	✗	MongoDB, MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, SurrealDb
WebSockets	✗	✗	✗	✓
Server-sent events	✗	✗	✗	✓
User sessions	✗	✓	✗	@primate/session

Resources

• Website: https://primatejs.com
• Discord: https://discord.gg/RSg4NNwM4f
• Reddit: r/primatejs
• Twitter (X): @primatejs
• Blog: https://primatejs.com/blog
• StackOverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/primate
• Demo app: https://github.com/primatejs/app

License

MIT

Contributing

By contributing to Primate, you agree that your contributions will be licensed under its MIT license.

Clone this repo and https://github.com/primatejs/app in the same location, and switch to the dev branch in the app repo. Then, in the app repo, run

• npm run node for Node in development mode
• npm run node:prod for Node in production mode
• npm run deno for Deno in development mode
• npm run deno:prod for Deno in production mode
• npm run bun for Bun in development mode
• npm run bun:prod for Bun in production mode
• npm run bun:compile for compiling desktop app with Bun