What is Nordcraft?

Nordcraft combines a modern web framework with a visual editor, Git-style version control, AI assistant, and a lightweight runtime. We call it a Web Development Engine.

Nordcraft is for web designers and web developers who want to craft exceptional experiences on the web.

Nordcraft is a front-end framework that lets you skip the traditional handover process from design to development that gets in the way of creativity and progress. When building in Nordcraft, you're building with real data, not placeholder data, so you can make sure your UI is built with every requirement and edge case in mind. In Nordcraft, design and development happen together. When building in Nordcraft, you can build full websites and web applications as you design the UI, while the engineers in your team can focus on building out the business logic and the back end.

Nordcraft combines a visual editor for user interface design with a powerful technical foundation built on modern web standards.

Key features include:

• Visual editing of UI components: see your change in real time on the Nordcraft canvas, no more switching back and forth between browser tabs
• Component-based architecture similar to React, Vue, and Svelte front-end frameworks
• Visual development environment for implementing interactive behavior and application logic
• Branch-based development environment for parallel feature development and team collaboration

The Nordcraft Web Development Engine is a lightweight 24kb runtime with a reactive architecture, supporting both server-side and client-side rendering. Nordcraft prioritizes the performance of your applications while providing you with all the tools you need for modern web application development.

Core technical features:

• Full control over generated HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• Signals-based reactive programming model
• Full server-side rendering capabilities
• Minimal DOM output for optimal performance
• Animation engine for creating dynamic interfaces
• Integrated version control
• Add your own custom code to your Nordcraft apps

Nordcraft provides everything you need to build and deploy modern, performant web applications:

• Full API integration for connecting to any back-end service
• Package system for sharing and reusing functionality
• Asset management for handling media
• SEO and meta tag configuration tools
• Live branch preview environments
• Pre-built templates to get you started quickly
• Deploy directly to Nordcraft's infrastructure or self-host your applications

The Nordcraft Web Development Engine gives you the freedom to fully customize and extend the system to meet your specific needs without limitations.

At Nordcraft, we're proud of our growing community where designers and developers are sharing their exciting projects built with Nordcraft.

The Nordcraft Web Development Engine is open source. View the nordcraft repository on GitHub and contribute via open issues.