# Amber

Web application framework written in Crystal, with routing, controllers, views and a command-line tool for generating applications.


Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/amber/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-24
Listed since: 2026-10-24

## Record

### Links

- home: https://amberframework.org
- repository: https://github.com/amberframework/amber
- docs: https://amberframework.org/docs/v2
- discord: https://discord.gg/vwvP5zakSn

### Identity

- status: active
- maintainer: Amber Team
- maintainerType: community
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2017
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: framework
- hosting: binary
- language: crystal
- runtime: binary
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

- contentStore: unknown
- databases: unknown
- adminUi: unknown
- headlessApi: unknown
- templating: unknown
- i18n: unknown

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: server
- installMethod: Homebrew

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 1
- latestReleaseDate: 2026-08-01

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 2607
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 101
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://amberframework.org/ (read 2026-10-24)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/amberframework/amber (read 2026-10-24)
- urls: https://amberframework.org/docs/v2 (read 2026-10-24)
- maintainer: https://github.com/amberframework/amber/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-24)
- maintainerType: https://github.com/amberframework/amber/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-24)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/amberframework/amber (read 2026-10-24)
- runtime: https://github.com/amberframework/amber/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-24)
- category: https://github.com/amberframework/amber/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-24)
- renderingModes: https://amberframework.org/ (read 2026-10-24)
- runsAs: https://amberframework.org/docs/v2/deployment/manual-deploy (read 2026-10-24)
- installMethod: https://github.com/amberframework/amber/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-24)
- installMethod: https://github.com/amberframework/amber/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-24)
- installMethod: https://github.com/amberframework/amber/blob/master/README.md (read 2026-10-24)
- license: https://github.com/amberframework/amber/blob/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-24)
- license: https://api.github.com/repos/amberframework/amber (read 2026-10-24)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/amberframework/amber/releases (read 2026-10-24)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/amberframework/amber/releases (read 2026-10-24)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/amberframework/amber/releases/tags/v1.5.0 (read 2026-10-24)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/amberframework/amber (read 2026-10-24)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/amberframework/amber/contributors (read 2026-10-24)

## Notes

Amber is a web application framework written in Crystal, with routing, controllers, views and a command-line tool that generates applications. It renders pages on the server. The 2.0 manual deployment guide builds an application into a single binary with its assets, copies it to a release directory and runs it as a service under systemd, with a TLS-terminating reverse proxy in front.

The project's documentation covers the 2.0 beta and lists 1.5 as the stable documentation version.

## Worth knowing

The 2.0 documentation describes that release as a prerelease whose web core is release-gated. The latest stable GitHub release is in the 1.x series.

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