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Encore is a Backend Development Engine, designed for rapidly building cloud-based backend applications using Go.
Encore understands your code and helps you build your app. It comes with built-in support for tracing, secrets, live reload, and more.

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Welcome to Encore

Overview

Why Encore?

Encore Application Model

Quick Start

Creating your first app

Building a REST API

Building a Slack bot

Services and APIs

API Errors

Authentication

SQL Databases

Secrets

Testing

API Documentation

CLI Reference

The Encore Platform

Scaling

Environments

Bring your own cloud

Infrastructure

Security

Development Dashboard

Logging

Monitoring

Distributed Tracing

Debug with Delve

Change SQL database schema

Receive webhooks

Integrate with a web frontend

Use Firebase Authentication

Integrate with GitHub

Get involved

Contribute

Principles

Introduction

Tutorials

Develop

Deploy

Observability

How-to Guides

Community