# Nitrogen

Erlang web framework for building interactive, Ajax-rich web applications.

STUB. This software has no release or pre-release in four years, or its project site no longer shows it, so it is not part of the register, not counted and not indexed. It will be checked again.

Source: https://findsoftware.frbit.cloud/nitrogen/
Last reviewed: 2026-10-26
Listed since: 2026-10-26

## Record

### Links

- home: https://nitrogenproject.com
- repository: https://github.com/nitrogen/nitrogen
- docs: https://nitrogenproject.com/doc/index.html
- x: https://twitter.com/nitrogenproject
- discord: https://discord.gg/ppGBxhM
- forum: https://groups.google.com/group/nitrogenweb

### Identity

- status: stub
- maintainer: Rusty Klophaus/Jesse Gumm
- maintainerType: unknown
- parent: unknown
- firstRelease: 2009
- hqCountry: unknown

### Kind

- category: framework
- hosting: elixir
- language: erlang
- runtime: beam
- runtimeMin: unknown
- basedOn: unknown

### Content

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

### Rendering and deploy

- runsAs: always-on
- renderingModes: unknown
- installMethod: download archive, make

### License

- licenseModel: open-source
- license: MIT

### Releases

- currentMajor: 2
- latestReleaseDate: 2020-11-15

### Adoption

- githubStargazers: 982
- packagistDownloads: not applicable
- npmWeeklyDownloads: not applicable
- contributors: 29
- pluginCount: unknown
- packagistMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- ecosystemsMonthlyDownloads: unknown
- httpArchiveSites: unknown
- wordpressActiveInstalls: unknown
- dependentRepos: unknown
- dependentPackages: unknown

### Sources

- urls: https://nitrogenproject.com/ (read 2026-10-26)
- urls: https://api.github.com/repos/nitrogen/nitrogen (read 2026-10-26)
- urls: https://nitrogenproject.com/doc/index.html (read 2026-10-26)
- templating: https://nitrogenproject.com/learn (read 2026-10-26)
- runsAs: https://nitrogenproject.com/doc/index.html (read 2026-10-26)
- maintainer: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nitrogen/nitrogen/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-26)
- language: https://api.github.com/repos/nitrogen/nitrogen (read 2026-10-26)
- category: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nitrogen/nitrogen/master/README.markdown (read 2026-10-26)
- runtime: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nitrogen/nitrogen/master/README.markdown (read 2026-10-26)
- installMethod: https://nitrogenproject.com/doc/index.html (read 2026-10-26)
- installMethod: https://nitrogenproject.com/downloads (read 2026-10-26)
- license: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/nitrogen/nitrogen/master/LICENSE (read 2026-10-26)
- firstRelease: https://api.github.com/repos/nitrogen/nitrogen/commits/v1.0 (read 2026-10-26)
- currentMajor: https://api.github.com/repos/nitrogen/nitrogen/tags (read 2026-10-26)
- latestReleaseDate: https://api.github.com/repos/nitrogen/nitrogen/commits/v2.4.0 (read 2026-10-26)
- githubStargazers: https://api.github.com/repos/nitrogen/nitrogen (read 2026-10-26)
- contributors: https://api.github.com/repos/nitrogen/nitrogen/contributors?per_page=1 (read 2026-10-26)

## Notes

Nitrogen is a web framework for Erlang, built on a pure Erlang technology stack, for interactive web applications. Pages and the events users trigger are handled in server-side Erlang code over an event-driven model, with websockets and an ajax fallback. The [getting started guide](https://nitrogenproject.com/doc/index.html) builds a starter application from source with make, and the starter runs on Inets, Erlang's built-in HTTP server. The [downloads page](https://nitrogenproject.com/downloads) offers self-contained packages for each platform, with a choice of Cowboy, Inets, Mochiweb, Webmachine or Yaws as the web server. A Nitrogen application is started, stopped and attached to as a detached console.

## Worth knowing

The repository has tags but no GitHub releases. The master README describes an upgrade to a newer major line that no tag in the repository covers.

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