Tapirio is a platform for developers who want to ship websites, blogs, and online stores on the stack they actually enjoy—Node.js, Pug, Markdown, and Sass.
We needed a developer-friendly tool for building websites quickly. The existing tools are either too simplistic—not allowing sufficient flexibility—or based in languages like PHP that are no longer favored by the developer community.
Tapirio gives you full control over templates and routing (Pug + Express), keeps content in Git (Markdown, not a database), and uses a simple Sass-based styling pipeline. Nothing hidden, nothing locked away.
The name is a play on the animal called tapir, which contains "api" in it (a wink to the dev community). As Japanese legend has it, tapirs are capable of eating humans' nightmares—so if you've experienced the horror of clunky web frameworks, you may find comfort in Tapirio for your next project.
One command to launch your first site:
npx create-tapirio my-website