At its core, Encore.ts is a and a runtime combined. It reads your TypeScript code structure to understand your architecture, then spins up the necessary cloud resources without requiring you to write Infrastructure as Code (IaC) files like Terraform or Pulumi. Core Features 1. Infrastructure from Code This is Encore.ts's killer feature. You don't write CREATE TABLE SQL migrations manually or configure SQS queues. Instead, you write TypeScript:
import Queue from "encore/queue"; export const emailQueue = new Queue("emails", maxConcurrency: 10, );
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import ping from "./client"; // auto-generated const result = await ping( name: "World" ); // fully typed Encore.ts treats background jobs as first-class citizens. You define a queue, and Encore handles the message broker (e.g., Redis, SQS, GCP Pub/Sub):
import SQLDatabase from "encore/storage"; // This single line provisions a real database in dev/prod const db = new SQLDatabase("user-db", migrations: "./migrations", ); encore ts
In your Next.js or React frontend:
// Backend: my-app/hello.ts interface PingParams name: string export const ping = api( method: "POST", path: "/ping/:name", expose: true , async (params: PingParams): Promise< message: string > => return message: Hello, $params.name! ; At its core, Encore
It is still young (first stable release in late 2024), but for greenfield projects, it represents a genuine leap forward in TypeScript backend ergonomics.