v0.1.0 — MVP core

Keel v0.1.0 — the MVP core. ⚓

A Laravel-flavored house framework for Node.js. Enough of a framework to build and serve a real application, small enough to read in an afternoon.

Highlights

• Service container — bind / singleton / instance / make, with string, symbol, and class tokens, and auto-construction of unbound classes.
• Application kernel — loads .env, auto-loads config/*.ts, runs the service-provider register() → boot() lifecycle.
• Configuration — dot-notation Config repository plus a type-coercing env() helper.
• Service providers — a clean register/boot contract to wire up services.
• Routing — a Router facade over Hono; handlers can be closures or [Controller, method] tuples resolved from the container (dependency injection included).
• HTTP kernel — global middleware stack compiled onto Hono, served by @hono/node-server.
• Console (keel) — serve, routes, and make:controller / make:provider / make:middleware generators.
• Docs — getting started, container, providers, configuration, routing, middleware, console, and architecture guides.

Get started

git clone https://github.com/shaferllc/keel.git
cd keel && npm install && npm run dev

See the README and docs/.

What's next

ORM/query builder + migrations (Drizzle) · validation (Zod) · templating · queues, events, mail · publishing @keel/core to npm.

Requires Node.js ≥ 22.