Meet Frappe, a powerful open-source platform that simplifies complex web application development. With its low-code architecture and comprehensive features, Frappe enables you to build custom applications quickly and efficiently.
When it comes to building web applications, most software development is about creating structured data, processing information, and displaying reports and dashboards. However, this process can be time-consuming and laborious, requiring the integration of multiple tools and frameworks. With Frappe, you can say goodbye to tedious development processes and hello to rapid application development.
The Power of a Unified Platform
Developing complex web applications often involves navigating multiple tools and frameworks, leading to time-consuming integration, maintenance, and troubleshooting. Frappe simplifies this process with its unified platform, providing a consistent and robust foundation for building custom applications. Whether you're creating complex business solutions like ERPNext or Insights, or building your own innovative application, Frappe's got you covered.
Unlock the Power of Open-Source Software
At Frappe, we believe in the power of open-source software and community. That's why our platform is entirely open-source, empowering a global community of users to access and build solutions that fit their unique needs. Open-source makes it more secure, fosters collaboration, and invites you to contribute, share, and be part of a vibrant ecosystem.
Simplify Your Self-Hosting Experience
Self-hosting Frappe applications can be complex and time-consuming, requiring expertise in setup, maintenance, and scalability. That's why we built Frappe Cloud—a simple, user-friendly, and sophisticated open-source platform to host your Frappe applications with peace of mind. Frappe Cloud handles the installation, setup, upgrades, monitoring, maintenance, and support of your Frappe deployments, ensuring you can focus on building great applications rather than worrying about the backend infrastructure.
Origins of Frappe Framework
Started in 2005, Frappe Framework was inspired by the Semantic Web. The "big idea" behind semantic web was of a framework that not only described how information is shown but also what it means. By creating a web framework that allowed for easy definition of metadata, it made building complex applications easy. Applications usually designed around how users interact with a system, but not based on semantics of the underlying system. Applications built on semantics end up being much more consistent and extensible. The first application built on Framework was ERPNext, a beast with more than 700 object types.
Join the Frappe Community
With a community of over 22,000 users on our discuss forum and numerous stars and contributors on GitHub, Frappe benefits from continuous improvement and collective innovation. By being open-source, it invites you to not just use the tool but also contribute, share, and be part of a vibrant ecosystem.
Explore More Features
Frappe provides hundreds of out-of-the-box components, everything from seamless UI to accounting to lead management to users to permissions to workflows to absolutely everything imaginable that one does not have to re-invent yet another CRUD CRM or a back office system. With its powerful admin UI, baked-in roles and permissions, powerful API capabilities, and ability to manage diverse workloads, Frappe is the only development platform you will need for most of your needs.
What's New and Improved
Explore what's new and improved in Framework v16!