What is ferrite?

Ferrite is an early-stage experiment building a web application framework whose core engine is written in Rust, while the parts a developer actually writes are JavaScript or TypeScript, similar in spirit to how Next.js pairs a React-style component model with file-based routing. The project's own README is upfront that this is a proof of concept and a buildable foundation, not a finished framework ready for general use. The team describes the project as being at a private alpha stage, suitable for a trusted internal team to try running something like an internal dashboard, documentation site, or content-heavy application, using the framework's check, build, and serve commands. It explicitly says it is not ready for public production use or for applications that handle a lot of authenticated data changes, and lists a number of things still missing before it could be, including hosted continuous integration support, proven staging and rollback behavior, official package publishing, a public command line installer, and stronger security hardening around server actions. Under the hood, routes are discovered automatically from a folder structure, similar to Next.js's app directory, and pages are written as TSX files that get compiled and rendered on the server in Rust for speed, then hydrated in the browser so they become interactive. The framework supports familiar React-style building blocks like state, effects, and refs, along with newer patterns such as Suspense for showing a loading state while content streams in, and server actions that let a page submit data back to the server without writing a separate API endpoint by hand. It also generates metadata for page titles, descriptions, and social sharing tags automatically from the code. Because Rust handles the performance sensitive rendering work while JavaScript and TypeScript remain the language developers write their pages in, the project positions itself as an attempt to get some of Rust's speed and reliability benefits without asking web developers to learn Rust themselves. The project is written primarily in Rust, and no license is stated in the visible portion of the README.