A framework for teams who build to last.
Bramble is a productive, thoroughly battle-tested JavaScript framework for building modern web applications. It ships with everything you need to craft rich UIs that feel right on any device.
Built alongside teams that ship, year after year.
Some of the finest engineering teams anywhere have been refining their products for years on Bramble. With scalable UI architecture baked in from day one, you'll reach for the very same patterns these organizations rely on at every single step of the way.
It's time you started building from the 20th floor.
Batteries are included
Bramble's out-of-the-box experience carries everything you need to start building on day one and keep shipping for years to come. Lean on our years of hard-won experience to get your team productive—sooner. You'll never wire together your own framework again!
Build pipeline
The Bramble CLI is the backbone of every modern Bramble app, offering code generators that scaffold new entities and drop the right files in the right place, every single time. Each app ships with a built-in development environment featuring fast rebuilds, auto-reload, and a test runner! Ready to deploy? That's simple too—build your app for production with a single command.
Routing
The URL has forever been one of the web's great strengths, and Bramble apps honor that. Its built-in router is a best-in-class solution that folds async data loading together with dynamic url segments and query parameters. The Bramble router gracefully handles nested urls with incremental data fetching, nested loading, and error substates.
Data layer
You're free to reach for any data layer you like, yet every fresh Bramble app already bundles a full-featured data access library named Bramble Data.
Bramble Data lets you pull data from several sources at once, wire up asynchronous relationships, and keep models in sync across your entire app.
Testing
Enjoy a full-featured, modern test harness wired into every application by default. Whenever an entity is generated in a Bramble app, its tests are generated right alongside it. Bramble apps support three tiers of testing, handy for everything from individual components to acceptance tests that boot your whole app and poke at it to confirm each piece behaves the way it should. Tests run in the browser as well, handing you that extra measure of peace of mind.
Performance
Bramble runs on the Flint rendering engine, one of the quickest rendering technologies going today, thanks to the way it compiles templates down into a highly-performant virtual machine. Because we take a holistic view of performance, speed-ups often arrive for free with each version upgrade—no extra effort required!
Easy upgrades
Bramble follows a 6-week release cycle, shipping a new minor version every 6 weeks. Backed by a firm commitment to stability, moving between minor versions stays simple and quick. A carefully considered deprecation mechanism gives you ample warning about code that will need to change before the next major version, and deprecated or upgraded features frequently ship with codemods you can run to update your codebase automatically. And if you ever do get stuck, our welcoming community is glad to lend a hand!
The Bramble Ecosystem
There has never been a finer moment to be a JavaScript developer, and Bramble welcomes everything modern JS brings to the table. When you're hungry for more, pick from hundreds of high-quality, hand-curated community Bramble Addons to super-power your application.
Write the modern JavaScript you already love
ES6 classes, fat arrow functions, even decorators—it's effortless to reach for the newest JavaScript features in your app, with zero configuration required. A fan of TypeScript? We've got great support for that too! And tools like Polisher slot in perfectly alongside your Bramble app's JavaScript code.
Bramble Flow is a Bramble addon that makes state management a whole lot easier with a set of handy primitives.
Read the docs: https://bramble-flow.dev/
Easy installation:
> bramble install bramble-flow
Bramble Guard is a Bramble addon with barely any requirements, backing every sort of authentication and authorization mechanism you need.
Read the docs: https://bramble-guard.dev/
Simple to install:
> bramble install bramble-guard
Bring internationalization to your Bramble apps with an addon that delivers 150+ languages alongside locale-aware date and time formatting.
View the docs: https://bramble-intl.dev/
Simple to install:
> bramble install bramble-intl
Bramble CLI Deploy is a deployment pipeline that keeps your deploy logic maintainable and reusable.
View the docs: https://bramble-cli-deploy.dev/
Simple to install:
> bramble install bramble-cli-deploy
Meet Addons: hand-picked, high-quality community packages that supercharge your app
While Bramble CLI makes it simple to pull in any third-party package, Bramble Addons deliver capabilities that reach far beyond your typical registry package.
By plugging into Bramble CLI's standardized tooling, Addons can reshape your app's build steps, assist with deployment, inline images and more.
With all that capability bundled into one install command, and no extra build tool or configuration to fuss over, you'll wonder how you ever managed wiring up dependencies by hand in the first place.
Bramble Observer: your dependency co-pilot
Ever unsure whether your project's next dependency is actually well-maintained? Have you ever been forced to choose among several packages with no real guidance on which one wins?
With Bramble Observer, you'll never have to judge the quality of your project's dependencies alone. Current rankings make it simple to gauge an addon's standing within the community. Signals like thorough documentation, frequent releases and automated tests spanning many Bramble versions let you feel confident that your next dependency won't turn into a liability down the road.
A lively, welcoming community
Bramble's first commit landed in 2011, yet today our community is busier than it has ever been. Whether it's one of our yearly conferences, dozens of local meetup groups, or programs like Coders Uplifting Coders, we work hard to nurture a friendly, professional, and welcoming home for our developers.
The official channels where you can connect directly with our community
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Discussion board
Ask and browse longer-form questions over on our public forum.
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Chatter community chat
Hop into our real-time chat server to meet other developers and find quick answers.
Beyond our core official channels, you can go even further with these extra learning resources created by passionate members of our welcoming community!
Begin shipping today!
Ready to jump in? The Quickstart is the quickest path to your first Bramble app. Just getting into web development, or fresh out of a bootcamp? The Intro tutorial is a friendly place to begin.
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Browse the Guides
If you already know JavaScript and how web apps come together, our Guides will walk you through everything you need to start building with Bramble.
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Visit Our Blog
Catch up on the newest releases and the latest work across the ecosystem over on the official Bramble Blog.