"Works of art make rules; rules do not make works of art."
— Claude Debussy

Overview

1Backend is a full-stack platform for the AI era. It lets you build distributed applications fast, without early infrastructure overhead. It’s a framework, proxy, and runtime that handles auth, user accounts, microservice and microfrontend routing, email, and more.

It can run and program LLMs inside containers. Zero-trust, zero-config, with its own ORM for development even without a database.

It’s multitenant—host multiple apps or sites on one install. In essence, a distributed operating system for your applications.

Launching the server

Easiest way to run 1Backend is with Docker. Install Docker if you don't have it. Step into repo root and:

docker compose up

Also see this page for other ways to launch 1Backend.

Build and use your first service in 3 steps

Check out the examples folder or the relevant documentation to learn how to easily build testable, scalable microservices on 1Backend.

Here are the conceptual steps though to illustrate how simple is a 1Backend service:

Step 1: Register the user account of your service

Each service - just like humans - must have their account and manage their own credentials. Just like humans, they must remember their passwords :)).

Language-agnostic

See the Register and Login endpoints.

Go SDK example

import (
  "github.com/1backend/1backend/sdk/go/boot"
  "github.com/1backend/1backend/sdk/go/client"
)

oneBackendClient  := client.NewApiClientFactory(service.Options.ServerUrl).Client()
token, err := boot.RegisterServiceAccount(
		oneBackendClient .UserSvcAPI,
		"your-svc", // Account slug
		"Your Service", // Display name
		credentialStore, // This is just a DB handle
	)

Step 2: Register your service instance address

Language-agnostic

Call the RegisterInstance endpoint directly from any programming language.

Go SDK example

import (
  "github.com/1backend/1backend/sdk/go/client"
)

oneBackendClient := client.NewApiClientFactory(service.Options.ServerUrl).Client()

oneBackendClient.RegistrySvcAPI.
		RegisterInstance(context.Background()).
		Body(openapi.RegistrySvcRegisterInstanceRequest{
			Url: "https://your-service-url",
		}).Execute()

Step 3: Call your service through the 1Backend server

All services registered will be available under their slug:

curl http://127.0.0.1:11337/your-svc/your-endpoint`.

Bonus step: deploy a microfrontend

1Backend doesn't just manage microservices, it also manages microfrontends. You can deploy a React/Vue/Angular/etc. apps as microfrontends and 1Backend will route requests to them based on routes:

oo route save --id=yourdomain.com --target=http://your-network-local-frontend-url

Automatic SSL is supported out of the box, see the Proxy Svc documentation and the edge proxy mode.

CLI

Install oo to get started (at the moment you need Go to install it):

go install github.com/1backend/1backend/cli/oo@latest

$ oo env ls
ENV NAME   SELECTED   URL                           DESCRIPTION   REACHABLE
local      *          http://127.0.0.1:11337                      true

$ oo login 1backend changeme

$ oo whoami
slug: 1backend
id: usr_e9WSQYiJc9
app:
  id: app_hRKWXZzK6P
  host: unnamed
roles:
- user-svc:user
- user-svc:admin

Run On Your Servers

See the Running the daemon page to help you get started.

Services

For articles about the built-in services see the Built-in services page. For comprehensive API docs see the 1Backend API page.

Run On Your Laptop/PC

We have temporarily discontinued the distribution of the desktop version. Please refer to this page for alternative methods to run the software.

License

1Backend is licensed under AGPL-3.0.