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Keel is the all-in-one platform that solves the backend puzzle by combining all the essential technology and tools your team needs to build a business that thrives.
🔥 A fully-managed relational database
🔨 Scalable infrastructure
🦄 A great local development experience
🤝 Flexible and customisable API's
👻 Authentication & Permissions
🌍 Multiple environments
⚡️ Configuration and secret management
🧐 Observability
🚀 Git-based deployments
🎟️ Pub/Sub
💼 Cron jobs
Keel is currently in private beta, join the waiting list for access to the platform. In the meantime you can run your Keel projects locally without an account using the CLI.
The best way to get started with Keel is with the CLI.
First, you will need to install Node.js and Docker as they are required to run Keel.
Install the CLI globally:
$ npm install --global keelIf the CLI has installed correctly, the following command will respond with the current version number:
$ keel --versionCreating a new project with the CLI is easy! You can create a new Keel project locally by running:
$ mkdir my-app && cd my-app
$ keel initThis will create a skeleton project containing a keel.schema file, a .gitignore and a keelconfig.yaml file.
Run keel init --help to see all of the available options for init.
Keel has created a handy VSCode extension that accelerates your development experience by providing syntax highlighting, autocompletions and schema validation.
To create your first Keel schema, follow our Basic Tutorial.
Now that you've created your first Keel schema, you can start using your APIs by starting the Keel development server:
$ keel runRun keel run --help to see all of the available options for run.
If everything has been successful, you should see something like this in your terminal:
You can now interact with your APIs at the URLs displayed. For more next steps, take a look at our documentation.
Have fun with your new Keel backend!
This is an overview of the commands available to you once you are set up.
| Command | Description |
|---|---|
| init | Initialise a new Keel project |
| run | Run the application locally |
| validate | Validate a Keel schema |
| generate | Generates dynamic JavaScript code from your Keel schema |
| secrets | Add, remove & list secrets |
| help | Gives extra information about Keel CLI commands |
If you want to know more about any of the CLI commands, you can run keel [command] --help.
If you would like to build and run the Keel Runtime locally, you can find out how to get set up for development from our Contributors page.
If you need help, have questions, or want to contact us for any reason, you can do so by emailing us at [email protected] or by visiting our Discord community.
If you find a bug and want to raise an issue, you can use GitHub Issues to do so. Please try to include as much information as you can, including steps to reproduce the issue, your expected outcome, the actual outcome and any details that could help such as envirnment details, traces or logs.
We hold our values very dearly at Keel, and want our communities to be respectful, welcoming places to engage in. As such, we have a Code Of Conduct governing this project that we take very seriously. If you feel that you have had an experience while engaging with this project that violates this code of conduct and you want to report it, please do so by emailing us at [email protected]. Please include as much detail as you feel able to so that we can look after you as well as we can.