PLEYN

Middle English for plain.

Bun · Hono · hono/html · htmx · Drizzle · PostgreSQL · Zod · Tailwind

Plain HTML, plain strings, nothing clever. The server renders HTML. htmx swaps in the piece that changed. There is no bundler, no client router, no client state, and no JSON API for the browser.

What PLEYN adds is one thing: the seam between the HTML a route returns and the DOM that receives it is checked statically, in under a second, with no browser.

bun create pleyn my-app

One command. It leaves a running application: sessions, CSRF, argon2id passwords, a worked resource, a test suite, and an AGENTS.md. The opinions are already applied. That is the point.

Versions

Docs versioning follows create-pleyn (the product entrypoint).

Package	Version
create-pleyn	0.1.0
htmx-contract	0.1.0

Where to go

• Install & create — prerequisites and the first command
• Why PLEYN — the four failure classes the stack exists for
• Conventions — the rules a generated app lives by
• htmx-contract — the checker, usable with any htmx backend

Early, and honest about it

htmx-contract is not on npm yet. Until it is, create with --no-install and point the project at a local copy. See Install.

Docs track create-pleyn’s version. See Docs sync & versions.