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title: What is Nordcraft?
description: Learn to build beautiful websites with Nordcraft through guides and examples. Explore components, CSS styling, APIs, and advanced features.
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# What is Nordcraft?

Nordcraft is a website builder combined with a powerful AI agent that gives you complete creative control to craft exceptional user experiences, and the speed of AI to generate the rest.

## Who is Nordcraft for?

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

In Nordcraft, both developers and designers can collaborate. When building in Nordcraft, you get to skip the traditional handover process from design to development that often gets in the way of creativity and progress by working in **one tool**.

## Key features of Nordcraft

- Real-time UI design: see your designs come to life in real time on the Nordcraft canvas, no more switching back and forth between browser tabs
- Full control over HTML and CSS, including an intuitive [visual CSS keyframe animation editor](/styling/animation-editor)
- A [component-based architecture](/components/overview) similar to modern JavaScript frameworks
- [Git-like branch-based development environment](/core-concepts#branches-and-version-control) with always-on [live preview URLs](/get-started/branches-and-publishing#preview-a-branch)
- Bring your own back end. Build with real data via [API connections](/connecting-data/overview#api-layer), so you can make sure your UI is built with every requirement and edge case in mind
- [Full server-side rendering capabilities](/core-concepts#server-and-client-rendering) so your websites load fast
- [Packages for sharing and reusing widgets and functionality](/packages/overview)
- [Asset management for uploading, storing and resizing media](/media/overview)
- [SEO and meta tag configuration tools](/pages/page-configuration#metadata)
- Pre-built templates to get you started quickly
- Deploy directly to Nordcraft's infrastructure or self-host your projects

## The Nordcraft community

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

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Join over 3k members in the [Nordcraft Discord](https://discord.gg/nordcraft) to keep up to date with new feature releases, ask for help, suggest improvements to the Nordcraft experience, and connect with other Nordcraft designers and developers.
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## Nordcraft is open source

[View the nordcraft repository on GitHub](https://github.com/nordcraftengine/nordcraft) and contribute via [open issues](https://github.com/nordcraftengine/nordcraft/issues).