A smart, bazingly fast, and eco-friendly server for your app's frontend. Give your users a better experience, simplify your development workflow, and reduce your infrastructure bill. All while saving the planet!
Whether you use React, Vue, or plain Javascript, you don't need to port your code to a new technology. Rather, you'll find yourself removing loads of code which gr8s renders unnecessary.
Develop great apps fast - with superior SEO & optionally working without Javascript!
gr8s replaces your big bloated app's infrastructure by a tiny, extremely fast server.
Deliver your app in a much greener and cost-effective way.
We created gr8s to make your app's users, developers & the whole planet happy! Use gr8s right away in your project at zero cost, our self-service plan is free forever.
Suitable if you have the time to integrate gr8s in your project.
Free forever Static & dynamic server content Documentation & setup examples Community support Updates: Every 6 months Best for optimal integration with minimal effort.
Everything in Self Service, plus ... Hands-off: we do the work Optimal bespoke integration Premium support & updates Updates: Every major release Best for optimal integration with minimal effort.
Everything in Premium Lite, plus ... Hands-off: we do the work Optimized app performance Your app runs without Javascript Updates: Every major srelease gr8s (pronounced like grace (/ɡreɪs/)) is a specialized server for modern web frontends (e.g. apps made with React, Vue, and similar frameworks). Thanks to its smart features, it reduces your app's development time and hosting costs by a big factor.
A frontend is the visible part of your app which users interact with. This includes text, pictures, videos, buttons, etc. Modern frameworks such as React, Vue and Svelte are used to make the frontend interactive and fast.
A server is generally a remote computer (in a data center or in the cloud) which runs a program and serves the results to a user (often to a user's browser).
A frontend server is a specialized server which makes your modern app more visible to search engines like Google. That is, a frontend server mainly helps optimize your app for search engines, i.e. SEO.
gr8s replaces your (big and costly) frontend server with a much smarter and tinier one.
Minimally.
In most cases, all you need is adding a single line of HTML code and you are set.
Additionally, if you had to write complex code to handle server-side rendering (SSR), you will see you don't need that any more thanks to gr8s. Naturally you will want to remove that code. Simpler, cleaner code bases are easier to maintain and extend.
On the contrary.
In our experience, the current technology to handle SEO for modern apps (i.e. SSR) is typically clunky and comes with a lot of friction. gr8s replaces this technology with a more intuitive way to control which text appears on which page. The end result is that you will have a much easier time optimizing your SEO content, and consequently search engines will love your websites more.
Javascript was introduced at first to add interactivity to already-working web pages and apps. This allowed users without modern Javascript support (e.g. with older browsers) to still be able to use your app. In modern times this practice seems to have been lost. The user (or the search engine bot) either has full modern Javascript environment, or they cannot view the app.
gr8s brings back this art and makes your website accessible to every user with a standard browser. This is done via one of two techniques:
Progressive enhancement: we start with a simple version of your app and enhance it according to the browser's capabilities.
Peaceful degradation: we start with a full version of your app yet we fall back to a simpler version if the browser capabilities cannot handle the full version.
The choice of technique depends highly on how your app is structured.
The current technology prevalent in modern frontend servers, server-side rendering, is unexplicably inefficient. This translates to higher energy waste and ultimately unnecessary Carbon emissions. gr8s has the potential to spare the world thousands of tons of Carbon emissions every year.
Yes. Self-Service plan is free forever. gr8s has positive environmental implications and we would like to see it used by as many apps as possible. Hence we will always provide a free, full-featured plan.
With Premium plan, we study your project, and integrate gr8s in your workflow in an optimal way. The price quoted in the pricing table is a once-off cost and warrants 3 months of maintenance (within the context of integrating gr8s in your project).
The full documentation is maintained in our Github repository at github.com/codomatech/gr8s-server.