Encore

What is Encore?

Encore is an open-source backend development framework designed for building distributed systems in TypeScript and Go. It combines a declarative infrastructure-as-code approach with type-safe API definitions, allowing developers to specify services, databases, Pub/Sub messaging, and caching directly within their application code. The framework targets teams building scalable backend systems who want to reduce boilerplate and infrastructure complexity. By unifying application code with infrastructure declarations, Encore helps ensure consistency between development intent and deployment reality while minimizing configuration drift. Key features include automatic API documentation generation, built-in support for common backend services like databases and message queues, and infrastructure management integrated into the development workflow. The type-safe approach catches errors at compile time rather than runtime, reducing bugs in distributed system logic. Encore is available as a free, open-source project on GitHub, making it accessible for individual developers and teams of any size. The framework emphasizes performance, security, and code quality as core design principles, with infrastructure decisions validated during development rather than discovered in production.