Overview
Quire is a typed, safe, compiled language for authoring web pages. Instead of interpolating untyped strings the way Liquid or Handlebars do, Quire treats a page as a program: content and typed blocks are woven together, type-checked, and compiled to a clean block IR. Because the page is checked at compile time, an authoring mistake is a build error rather than a broken page in production.
- Typed blocks - every section, text node, and field has a checked shape.
- Compiles to a clean, portable block IR.
- Code and a visual builder are two views of one model - they never drift.
- A real successor to Liquid / Handlebars, not another template dialect.
Install
Quire is in active development and has no public release artifacts yet. Use the docs and roadmap pages for current integration guidance.
Quick start
Write a page in a `.quire` file. A page declares the data model it expects, a route, a title, and a tree of typed blocks. Compile it with the CLI to produce the block IR that renders your page.
quire HomePage { model { site: Site } route "/" title site.name section hero { text heading { value site.tagline variant "display" } }}Key concepts
Quire is organised around the model, the page, and blocks. A page binds a typed `model` so every reference (like `site.tagline`) is checked. Blocks - `section`, `text`, and the rest - nest to form the page tree, and each carries typed fields. Compilation lowers that tree into a block IR, the same structure the visual builder reads and writes, which is why the two views can never disagree.
- `model` - the typed data a page expects; references are checked against it.
- Blocks - `section`, `text`, and more nest into the page tree.
- Typed fields - `value`, `variant`, and friends are validated at compile time.
- Block IR - the compiled, portable representation shared with the builder.
- One model, two views - editing code or the builder keeps both in sync.
Links & status
Quire is in active development, with no public package distribution yet. The language exists today as an internal design direction and typed docs reference.
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