Sapling

A Modern SSR framework for generating content-first websites.

• Multi-runtime, meaning you can use it with Deno, Node, Bun, and Cloudflare Workers.
• Support for Tailwind CSS via UnoCSS.
• Completely buildless meaning it has no build step and does not rely on a bundler.

Getting Started

Deno

deno -A jsr:@sapling/create

Node

npm create sapling@latest

Bun

bunx create-sapling@latest

Packages

Package	Description	Version
sapling	A micro SSR framework
create	A CLI for creating Sapling projects
markdown	A markdown parser for Sapling sites or Deno projects
create-sapling	A CLI for creating Sapling projects with npm

Examples

We would recommend checking out the Sapling Examples Repository for more examples of how to use Sapling.

Attributions

• Hono - Our html and raw HTML helpers are based on Hono's to allow for easy migration between Sapling and Hono. We are also huge fans of their routing approach which is why we've structured Sapling's API in a similar way.
• UnoCSS - We use UnoCSS for atomic CSS.
• micromark - Our markdown parser.
• shiki - The code highlighter for syntax highlighting.