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Membrane

Introduction to Membrane

Membrane simplifies the process of building and deploying small applications using TypeScript. Popular use cases for Membrane are automation using APIs, email, text messages, long-lived workflows, cron jobs, webhook handlers, web scraping, chat bots, and many more.

What’s different?

Membrane’s superpowers come from a few features that differentiate it from other JavaScript/TypeScript environments, most notably:

  • Programs are durable: there’s no need to store/load data from a database, just keep data you want to save in the state object.
  • Access APIs via a unified graph: use external APIs with ease.
  • Everything is in the logs: Our runtime uses a write-ahead log, so if it’s not in the logs, it didn’t happen.
  • Built-in email: every program comes with an email address. Just export an email function.

Check out our homepage for an overview of the main features and examples.

Community

Come join us on Membrane’s Discord or reach out via contact@membrane.io. We’ll help you get set up and show you around.