MEMBRANE
BETA
What is Membrane?
Membrane is a hosted TypeScript runtime specifically designed to build personal automation tools and interact with APIs more easily.
FEATURES- Durable Programs ....................................................................................................0
- Cron Jobs and Timers ....................................................................................................1
- Built inside VS Code ....................................................................................................2
- The Graph ....................................................................................................3
- Graph-based Access Control ....................................................................................................4
- Observability ....................................................................................................5
- Instantanous Deploys ....................................................................................................6
- Step Debugger ....................................................................................................7
- Custom Exit Nodes ....................................................................................................8
- HTTP Endpoints ....................................................................................................9
- Open Source Drivers (APIs) ....................................................................................................10
- Code completion ....................................................................................................11
EXAMPLES
- SMS Reminders ....................................................................................................9
- Discord Weather Bot ....................................................................................................10
- Mailchimp Alerts ....................................................................................................11
- Follow Hacker News Users ....................................................................................................12
- Airtable changes to Email ....................................................................................................13
- Twitter Bot ....................................................................................................14
- HTMX Form ....................................................................................................15
- Github Weekly Report ....................................................................................................16
- Github Action Alert ....................................................................................................17
- Github Commits on Discord ....................................................................................................18
- Track HN Jobs in Google Sheets ....................................................................................................19
- Mailchimp to airtable ....................................................................................................20

example mailchimp to airtable
Adds a new record to an Airtable Base when a new Mailchimp subscriber is added.
Subscribe to event.
GraphQL query
New Airtable record.
import { nodes, root, state } from "membrane";
export async function configure({ audienceId, tableId }) {
const audience = await nodes.audiences.one({ id: audienceId });
await audience.subscriptions.$subscribe(root.handleEvent);
state.table = nodes.tables.one({ id: tableId });
}
export async function handleEvent(_, { event }) {
const data = await event.member.$query(
`{ email_address, status, timestamp_opt }`
);
const record = {
email: data.email_address,
status: data.status,
timestamp: data.timestamp_opt,
};
await state.table.createRecord({ fields: record });
}
What is Membrane?
Membrane is a hosted TypeScript runtime specifically designed to build personal automation tools and interact with APIs more easily.
FEATURESEXAMPLES
Features Walkthrough
Communication
- 2023.08.20 Progress Update #3 Simpler function signatures, built-in Google auth.
- 2023.08.13 Progress Update #2 Windows support and OOM handling.
- 2023.07.30 Progress Update #1 Internal logging architecture, improved HTTP UI.
- 2023.07.14 Progress Update #0 Exit nodes and Program Replays.
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