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 twitter bot
Uses the Twitter Driver to post a random word definition generated via OpenAI.
Use the OpenAI driver to generate a tweet
Tweet!
import { nodes, root, state } from "membrane";
export async function tweet() {
const result: any = await nodes.openai.models
.one({ id: "gpt-3.5-turbo" })
.completeChat({
messages: [
{
role: "system",
content: `You're a Ai Dictionary that share lesser-known
words and fascinating vocabulary facts,
Return the text with the following format:
Word: <english word>
Definition: <short definition>
Pronunciation: <pronunciation>
Example sentence: <example sentence>`,
},
{
role: "user",
content: "Generate a random word",
},
],
temperature: 1
});
await nodes.twitter.tweet({
text: `${result.content} #membrane`
});
}
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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