The Web Development Engine

Craft AAA web apps that delight your users

The Nordcraft Engine lets designers and developers collaborate to create immersive and interactive web experiences. That’s why we used Nordcraft to build Nordcraft.

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Built on Nordcraft

The Nordcraft Engine is an open-source Web Development Engine designed for those who refuse to settle for default.

Lighthouse Wars

Which website is fastest?

t-beat.pro

Create and share your beat!

Nordcraft

Yes, Nordcraft is built in Nordcraft!

The next chapter in web development

Game studios have been relying on high quality visual tools to deliver the best possible experiences. Why should web development be any different?

Open-source 2025Apache License 2.0

The World's first-ever web development engine

Nordcraft is for web development what Unreal Engine is for game development: a tool to create AAA web apps.

Game studios didn't turn to Unreal Engine because they couldn't code, but because they had to in order to ship AAA video games.

Andreas Møller

CEO, Nordcraft

What's a Web Development Engine?

A Web Development Engine is visual tooling applied to a framework sitting on top of the web standards.

Powerful visual toolsEverything you need, right in front of you

Familar feeling frameworkComponent-based like React and Vue

Web nativeFull control of the DOM

ENGINE PARTS

Framework

Server side rendering, custom runtime, minimal DOM output, version control, and powerfull tooling.

Skip the assembly line

Nordcraft counters the classic Figma to Jira to code assembly line. Don't do handovers, do it yourself.

The web is powerful, but most teams build the same app over and over. Don't limit yourself, build the app of your dreams.

Two worlds combined

Nordcraft is a tool for both designers and developers where neither feels limited.

A powerful framework at the core

The Nordcraft Engine is powerful, yet lightweight. It is built on the best ideas from the last 10 years of web frameworks, and will feel very familiar to React, Vue and Svelte developers.

Component-based development

Lightweight 24kb runtime

Full server and client-side rendering

Fast reactive core based on signals

A complete suite of tools

Nordcraft comes with all the tools you expect to make state of the art web applications.

Branching

Collaborate through branching.

API Connection

Connect to any REST API or backend.

Hosting

Cloudflare hosting with 285 global EDGE locations.

Self-hosting

Deploy at will. Nordcraft is open-source.

SSR

Server-Side Rendering as standard.

Issue Tracking

Monitor and fix bugs.

Components

Component-driven development by heart.

Design Systems

Stay on brand and work faster.

Live Data

Build, iterate, and test with live data.

View Transitions

Create beautiful View Transitions.

Packages

Publish and download community packages.

Custom Code

Extend Nordcraft via the built-in code editor.

Web Components

Export and host Web Components.

AI Assistant

Get unblocked via the AI Assistant.

SEO & Meta Tags

Get indexed by search engines.

Never settle for default

Nordcraft is designed to let you iterate quickly so you can get it just right. See your changes in real time, and work with live data, so you can see what happens at every step.

Fetch any data

Connect to any API or database

Build with live data

Watch data change as you build

Instant design feedback

See everything you build live

Try Nordcraft — it's free!

Don't deploy to staging!

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AI will mean more programmers, not fewer

AI will not replace programming. Instead AI, combined with the power of visual programming platforms, will help more people than ever become programmers

Don't deploy to staging!

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Faster than light loading with the Speculation Rules API

The best loading time is none at all! With the new Speculation Rules API, your website’s load speed goes superluminal, and will feel as if instantaneous.

How to build a bad UI

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How useless apps teach you how to program faster

It's hard to learn new things like programming. Unlike Neo, you can’t just plug into The Matrix and instantly know how to develop — maybe someday, but not yet.

Debug with Dev Tools

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Walk the Talk

Don't just chat about it, build it

LLMs are great tools, not great Developers. Great Developers wield many tools to build great software, they don't just prompt one.

A person prompting his way to the next big thing — maybe, but probably not

build me the next big thing

Don't be a prompt boi

A person happy about building the next big thing

Master an entire toolbox

Enterprise Support

Nordcraft provides detailed onboarding for enterprise teams, ensuring a fast and efficient start.

Kickoff Workshop

4 hours with Nordcraft Engineers.

Weekly Calls

Support and feedback calls.

Support Channel

Live support channel on Discord.

Programming is magical, but it is not magic

AI "vibe coding" enables quick app creation, but lacks the control of traditional development. Developers ensure reliability, which AI alone can't provide.

Pixels with Purpose - Episode 1

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They lied to you. Building software is really hard.

Every week there seems to be a new tool that promises to let anyone build applications 10x faster. The promise is always the same and so is the outcome.