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Encore is the backend development platform that automates infrastructure for seamless development, from local to your cloud. Develop your backend locally with instant infrastructure, preview PRs in dedicated environments, and skip tedious infrastructure-as-code with automatic infrastructure setup in your cloud (AWS & GCP).

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Encore is an open-source backend framework designed to simplify the development of distributed systems by automating infrastructure management and ensuring end-to-end type safety. It supports both TypeScript and Go, enabling developers to define services directly in code, with Encore handling the generation of infrastructure, wiring, API documentation, and tracing. Key Features and Functionality: - Type-Safe API Development: Transform functions into APIs with minimal code, as Encore generates the necessary communication boilerplate, ensuring full type safety. - Automated Infrastructure Integration: Define infrastructure components like databases, Pub/Sub systems, object storage, cron jobs, secrets, and caches as type-safe objects within your application code, eliminating the need for manual configuration. - High-Performance Runtime: Encore's multi-threaded Rust runtime, integrated with Node.js, delivers up to 9x faster performance compared to traditional frameworks like Express.js. - Comprehensive Local Development Tools: Benefit from automated local infrastructure setup with hot reload capabilities, a service catalog with full API documentation, an API explorer for testing, distributed tracing, and real-time architecture diagrams. - Flexible Deployment Options: Deploy applications anywhere that supports Docker images using Encore's open-source tools, or fully automate infrastructure and DevOps processes in your cloud environment on AWS and GCP with Encore Cloud. Primary Value and Problem Solved: Encore addresses the complexities inherent in building and managing distributed systems by providing a unified framework that automates infrastructure provisioning and ensures type safety throughout the development process. This approach significantly reduces the time and effort required for setup and maintenance, allowing developers to focus on writing business logic rather than dealing with boilerplate code and manual configurations. By streamlining the development workflow and enhancing performance, Encore empowers teams to build robust, scalable applications more efficiently.

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Marcel B.
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Marcel B.
Ecommerce Director of Engineering @ Reservamos
05/09/2025
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Everything you need in one framework.

We are currently migrating our tech stack in our currently and decided to try out Encore TS. So far, I've beed quite impressed by it. - We don't have to worry about dev-ops. With it's IaC every service, database, etc... you want to create, will automatically be detected and created by encore. Therefore, you can create distributed systems out of the box. - Super fast API responses. - Very AI friendly, from the start you can use cursor rules provided to give context to the LLMs you use. - Automatic swagger-like documentation, also automatically detected and created by the framework. - No boilerplate stuff. - Super helpful creator team. Any question you have will quickly be answered on their Discord. - Leap. You can create complete Encore apps with just using prompts.
Adris I.
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Adris I.
05/09/2025
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Makes Building Backends Fun Again

What really stood out to me about Encore is how much it takes the stress out of backend development. I’m not an expert in cloud infrastructure, but Encore just handles so much of the setup for me. I love how quickly I can get a new project running and see real results—no more getting stuck on endless configuration or deployment issues. The local development experience is smooth, and I really appreciate being able to see my APIs documented automatically. It’s honestly saved me a lot of headaches. The community is friendly and responsive, which makes it easy to ask questions and learn as I go. Overall, Encore has made me actually enjoy working on backend projects, and I’d happily recommend it to friends or colleagues who want to spend less time on boilerplate and more time building cool things.
Vilhelm M.
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Vilhelm M.
Software Engineer at Skrym
05/08/2025
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Great for shipping fast without worrying about infra

The biggest win for our team is not having to worry about infrastructure. We write code, press merge, and Encore makes sure it’s deployed and running for our users, with no extra tooling. For a team of a lot of junior-level developers with the budget and time constraints of a startup, this has been a huge plus. We feel like we can ship faster. The local dev environment is super easy to work with and behaves just like the cloud, which means less surprise bugs. The built-in traces view is great for debugging and helps us move faster. When we've run into issues—or just needed help understanding how something works—we've gotten solid support from the Encore team. They are very helpful and active on Discord. We're using Encore with GCP, and that setup has been smooth. The recent updates to the cloud dashboard, especially around infrastructure visibility and config, have made GCP a lot nicer to deal with. It also plays nicely with our Next.js frontend on Vercel. The type-safe API client Encore generates has been really helpful, it gives us confidence that everything works all the way from the browser to the database at compile time.

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Encore is a development platform designed to simplify the creation of backend applications. It offers a range of features that help developers build, test, and deploy cloud-native applications more efficiently. By leveraging Encore's integrated development environment, users can streamline workflows, manage infrastructure automatically, and ensure seamless scalability. The platform is suitable for developers looking to optimize their programming processes and reduce time spent on configuration and infrastructure management.

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