Typed & safe by construction
Every section, text node, and field has a checked shape, and references like site.tagline are validated against a typed model. A broken page is a build error — Quire rejects bad pages before they ever publish.
A standalone typed authoring language
Author the web in a language that can't break.
Quire is a typed, compiled language for authoring web pages. It weaves content and typed blocks into a page, checks every reference against a real model, and compiles to a clean block IR — so a page is a verified program, not a string of fragile template tags.
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quire HomePage { model { site: Site } route "/" title site.name section hero { text heading { value site.tagline variant "display" } button cta { label "Get started" action site.signup } }}yoursite.com /
section hero
The web, authored in a language that can't break.
site.tagline, typed and resolved at compile time.
Get startedOne model, two views — edit the code or the builder and the other stays in sync.
Why Quire
A page should be a program, not a guess.
Quire brings the guarantees of a typed, compiled language to web authoring — and pairs them with a visual builder that edits the very same model.
Two views of one model
Code and a visual builder are not a sync problem — they are the same model rendered two ways. Edit either side and the other stays in step, because both read and write the identical block tree.
Owns its block IR
Quire compiles to a clean, portable block IR it defines end to end. The page you author lowers into the exact structure the builder reads, so nothing is lost in translation between code and canvas.
The Liquid / Handlebars successor
Instead of interpolating untyped strings into fragile template tags, Quire treats a page as a checked program. It is a real successor to Liquid and Handlebars, not another templating dialect.
A real .quire page
Read it once, and it reads like the page.
A Quire page declares the typed model it expects, a route and title, and a tree of typed blocks. Every block carries checked fields, and every reference is resolved against the model before anything ships.
model { site: Site }— binds the typed data the page expectssection hero { … }— a typed block that nests text and a buttonvalue site.tagline— a reference checked against the modelaction site.signup— typed actions, not stringly-typed handlers
home.quire
quire HomePage { model { site: Site } route "/" title site.name section hero { text heading { value site.tagline variant "display" } button cta { label "Get started" action site.signup } }}Get started
Install Quire and author your first page.
Quire ships on npm as a single package that provides the quire CLI. Source files end in .quire.
Install the package
npm install @stretchgroup/quireverifyquire --versionBuild a page with the CLI
quire build home.quirePrefer to vendor it? Pull the packed tarball quire-latest.tgz from the downloads page.
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Source filesend in .quire
Read the docs, then pull the package.
The full reference covers the model, blocks, typed fields, and the block IR. Install from npm or download the hosted tarball.