Built on shoulders

Runtime

• Node.js — the JavaScript runtime everything runs on. (MIT-style)
• Express — the web framework underpinning routes + middleware. (MIT)
• Pug — the template engine rendering every server-side view. (MIT)
• Prisma — the ORM mediating between Manifold and Postgres. (Apache-2.0)
• Neon — managed Postgres with branching. (service)

Media pipeline

• sharp — fast image processing. We use it for OG and PWA icons. (Apache-2.0)
• node-canvas — server-side Canvas for quote-card composition. (MIT)
• GraphicsMagick — the image-manipulation workhorse for the publish pipeline. (MIT-style)
• FFmpeg — every video transcode runs through here. (LGPL / GPL)

Social platform SDKs

• twitter-api-v2 — the X / Twitter publisher. (Apache-2.0)
• snoowrap — the Reddit publisher. (MIT)
• instagram-private-api — the Instagram publisher. (MIT)
• fb — the Facebook Graph API client. (Apache-2.0)
• googleapis — the YouTube + Search Console + Sheets client. (Apache-2.0)
• wpapi — the WordPress REST publisher. (MIT)
• pinterest-node-api — the Pinterest publisher. (MIT)

Ops + observability

• Fly.io — runs the production deploy. (service)
• Sentry — error monitoring + alerting. (BSL / hosted)
• Cloudflare R2 — generated-media storage (free egress is the killer feature). (service)
• morgan — HTTP request logging. (MIT)
• express-session — server-side sessions. (MIT)
• jsonwebtoken — JWT sign/verify for the panel. (MIT)

Type + design

• Inter by Rasmus Andersson — the marketing-site type face. (OFL)
• League Spartan — the wordmark + sidebar type. (OFL)
• Lucide icons — the geometric reference for our inline SVG icons. (ISC)

License

Manifold itself is released under the Apache License 2.0 — see LICENSE in the repository. Use it, modify it, ship it.