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Kixx is an AI first Rapid Application Development framework.
Build blazingly fast with AI agents like Claude Code and Cursor without generating piles of shit code you’ll need to rewrite later.
Improved AI Control
Use AI for what it's good at and then get it out of way.
Kixx manages the LLM context from an MCP server, guiding the LLM to use convention and configuration over code to keep AI agents out of trouble. Your AI environment has the information and tools it needs, but not so much context to cause confusion and thrashing. This design speeds up development, avoids LLM API limits, and saves token costs.
Developer Power
Kixx never takes away your power to shoot yourself in the foot.
You have full control over your projects with the ability to extend everything with your own code. All conventions and configurations can be overridden, new code can be added, and existing code can be extended.
HTML Driven
Take a break from TypeScript/JavaScript Single Page App fatigue.
Free yourself from the front-end frameworks, build tooling, endless dependencies, and code bloat rampant in web development. Kixx is built on the premise that a solo-developer or small team armed with a good HTTP + HTML framework can run circles around a bloated client architecture.
In Development
Kixx is a long way from its intended vision, but will be moving rapidly week by week. Check out Kixx on GitHub, and give it a star to let us know you're following along.
Core Principles
The Kixx Framework has a set of core principles which guide all the decisions made in its design and approach to developing web applications.
1. Optimize for productivity.
When a design decision needs to be made, Kixx will optimize for developer productivity. This is the north star of the Kixx framework, and most of the remaining principles derive from it.
2. Have opinions
Kixx has opinions about building great web applications. A framework needs to bring opinions, otherwise, what's the point of using a framework?
3. Software is a craft.
Humans write software for humans. Even in a post AI world, building software will always be a craft done by a craftsperson.
4. Remove complexity.
Kixx seeks out incidental complexity and eliminates it or buries it so developers can use more brain capacity on the real problems we're trying to solve.
5. The World Wide Web is the best application platform ever invented.
Nothing has ever been created that matches the accessibility, openness, power, and distribution of the Web. Kixx is fully committed to improving and contributing to the WWW.
6. AI tools can be built and used without negative side effects.
AI tools should be small, efficient, productive, and focused on the craft of software development. There is no need to consume our natural resources to use AI effectively in software development.
7. Favor monolithic, hypermedia driven applications.
Kixx is for solo developers and small, fast moving teams. Monolithic, hypermedia driven applications give us a massive productivity boost over the complexity of microservices and bloated JavaScript client applications.
8. Convention over Configuration and Code
Wherever possible Kixx uses conventions over configuration and code for common web application logic. This dramatically reduces the amount of code that needs to be written, generated, understood, and debugged.
Hypermedia-Driven Applications
Hypermedia-Driven Applications are web application where hypermedia (HTML) serves as the engine of application state. Instead of relying on JavaScript to manage state and coordinate between client and server, the application state changes by following links and submitting forms embedded in the HTML responses.
- Server-side rendering of all application state
- State transitions through hypermedia (links and forms)
- Progressive enhancement with minimal JavaScript
- RESTful architecture with HTML hypertext as the representation of state
- Monolithic design for simplicity and productivity
The Kixx framework embodies these principles, providing a productive environment for building web apps that are simple, fast, and maintainable.
For more information about hypermedia-driven applications, see:
- Hypermedia-Driven Applications (HTMX)
- The Web's Grain by Frank Chimero
- REST: From Research to Practice
For more, see Kixx on GitHub and Kixx on Reddit.