base on Unified Backend Framework for APIs, Events, and AI Agents # Motia <p align="center"> <img src="https://motia.dev/icon.png" alt="Motia Logo" width="200" /> </p> <p align="center"> <strong>🔥 A Modern Unified Backend Framework for APIs, Events and Agents 🔥</strong> </p> <p align="center"> <a href="https://www.npmjs.com/package/motia"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/npm/v/motia?style=flat&logo=npm&logoColor=white&color=CB3837&labelColor=000000" alt="npm version"> </a> <a href="https://github.com/MotiaDev/motia/blob/main/LICENSE"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/license-MIT-green?style=flat&logo=opensourceinitiative&logoColor=white&labelColor=000000" alt="license"> </a> <a href="https://github.com/MotiaDev/motia"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/github/stars/MotiaDev/motia?style=flat&logo=github&logoColor=white&color=yellow&labelColor=000000" alt="GitHub stars"> </a> <a href="https://twitter.com/motiadev" target="_blank"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/badge/Follow-@motiadev-1DA1F2?style=flat&logo=twitter&logoColor=white&labelColor=000000" alt="Twitter Follow"> </a> <a href="https://discord.gg/EnfDRFYW" target="_blank"> <img src="https://img.shields.io/discord/1322278831184281721?style=flat&logo=discord&logoColor=white&color=5865F2&label=Discord&labelColor=000000" alt="Discord"> </a> </p> <p align="center"> <a href="https://www.motia.dev/manifesto">💡 Motia Manifesto</a> • <a href="https://www.motia.dev/docs/getting-started/quick-start">🚀 Quick Start</a> • <a href="https://www.motia.dev/docs/concepts/steps/defining-steps">📋 Defining Steps</a> • <a href="https://motia.dev/docs">📚 Docs</a> </p> --- ## 🎯 What is Motia? Motia is a **modern backend framework** that unifies APIs, background jobs, events, and AI agents into a single cohesive system. Eliminate runtime complexity and build unified backends where **JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, etc**, work together in event-driven workflows, with built-in state management, observability, and one-click deployments. Motia brings cohesion to the fragmented backend world with our core primitive: the **Step**. Think of Steps like React Components, but for backends.  ### 🧱 The Step Philosophy - **🎯 Single Purpose**: Each Step performs one task - **🌍 Language agnostic**: Each Step can be in a different language while being part of the same workflow - **⚡ Versatile**: Steps can trigger APIs, background jobs, and AI Agents - **👁️ Observable**: Everything is observable by default - **🌊 Workflows**: Collections of connected steps that form complete processes - **🏪 State Management**: Shared state across all steps with full traceability --- ## 🚧 The Problem Backend teams juggle **fragmented runtimes** across APIs, background queues, and AI agents. This creates deployment complexity, debugging gaps, and cognitive overhead from context-switching between frameworks. **This fragmentation demands a unified system.** --- ## ✅ The Unified System Motia unifies your entire backend into a **unified state**. APIs, background jobs, and AI agents become interconnected Steps with shared state and integrated observability. | **Before** | **After (Motia)** | | --------------------------- | --------------------------------------- | | Multiple deployment targets | **Single unified deployment** | | Fragmented observability | **End-to-end tracing** | | Language dependent | **JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, etc** | | Context-switching overhead | **Single intuitive model** | | Complex error handling | **Automatic retries & fault tolerance** | --- ## 🔧 Supported Step Types | Type | Trigger | Use Case | | ----------- | --------------------- | ------------------------------------- | | **`api`** | HTTP Request | Expose REST endpoints | | **`event`** | Emitted Topics | React to internal or external events | | **`cron`** | Scheduled Time (cron) | Automate recurring jobs | | **`noop`** | None | Placeholder for manual/external tasks | --- ## 🚀 Quickstart Get up and running in **under 60 seconds**: ### 1. Create Your Project ```bash npx motia@latest create -i ``` - Enter project details like template, project name, etc ### 2. Write Your First Step Open `01-api.step.ts` and create a simple API endpoint: ```typescript exports.config = { type: 'api', // Step type: "api", "event", "cron", or "noop" path: '/hello-world', // API endpoint path method: 'GET', // HTTP method name: 'HelloWorld', // Step identifier emits: ['test-state'], // Events this step emits flows: ['default'], // Flow this step belongs to } exports.handler = async () => { return { status: 200, body: { message: 'Hello World from Motia!' }, } } ``` ### 3. Launch the Workbench Start the visual development environment: ```bash npm run dev # Opens at http://localhost:3000 ``` 🎉 **That's it!** You now have a fully functional Motia app with: - ✅ API endpoint at `/hello-world` - ✅ Visual debugger and flow inspector - ✅ Built-in observability - ✅ Hot reload for instant feedback ### 4. Explore the Workbench From the Workbench, navigate to: - **📊 Logs**: Structured logs for each step execution with inputs, outputs, and errors - **🏪 States**: View internal state and data passed between steps using traceID - **🔌 Endpoints**: Test all your API endpoints directly from the UI - **🌊 Flows**: Visually inspect how your steps connect and what each step does --- ## 🗂 Examples | [Finance Agent](https://github.com/MotiaDev/motia-examples/tree/main/examples/finance-agent) | [GitHub Agent](https://github.com/MotiaDev/motia-examples/tree/main/examples/github-integration-workflow) | [Gmail Manager](https://github.com/MotiaDev/motia-examples/tree/main/examples/gmail-workflow) | | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | <br>Financial insights | <br>PR automation | <br>Email automation | | [Trello Automation](https://github.com/MotiaDev/motia-examples/tree/main/examples/trello-flow) | [RAG Agent](https://github.com/MotiaDev/motia-examples/tree/main/examples/rag_example) | [AI Image Gen](https://github.com/MotiaDev/motia-examples/tree/main/examples/vision-example) | | ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- | | <br>Task automation | <br>Knowledge retrieval | <br>Generate images | --- ## 🌐 Language Support Write steps in your preferred language: | Language | Status | Example | | -------------- | ------------- | ----------------- | | **JavaScript** | ✅ Stable | `handler.step.js` | | **TypeScript** | ✅ Stable | `handler.step.ts` | | **Python** | ✅ Stable | `handler.step.py` | | **Ruby** | 🔄 Coming Soon | `handler.step.rb` | | **Go** | 🔄 Coming Soon | `handler.step.go` | | **Rust** | 🔄 Coming Soon | `handler.step.rs` | --- ### 💬 **Get Help** - **📋 Questions**: Use our [Discord community](https://discord.gg/7rXsekMK) - **🐛 Bug Reports**: [GitHub Issues](https://github.com/MotiaDev/motia/issues) - **📖 Documentation**: [Official Docs](https://motia.dev/docs) - **🎥 Blog**: [Motia Blog](https://dev.to/motiadev) ### 🤝 **Contributing** #### 🚀 Roadmap We're building Motia in the open, and we'd love for you to be a part of the journey. Check out our public roadmap to see what’s planned, what’s in progress, and what’s recently shipped: 👉 [View our public Roadmap](https://github.com/orgs/MotiaDev/projects/2/views/2) We welcome contributions! Whether it's: - 🐛 Bug fixes and improvements - ✨ New features and step types - 📚 Documentation and examples - 🌍 Language support additions - 🎨 Workbench UI enhancements Check out our [Contributing Guide](https://github.com/MotiaDev/motia/blob/main/CONTRIBUTING.md) to get started. --- <div align="center"> **🌟 Ready to unify your backend?** [🚀 **Get Started Now**](https://motia.dev) • [📖 **Read the Docs**](https://motia.dev/docs) • [💬 **Join Discord**](https://discord.gg/7rXsekMK) --- ## Star History [](https://www.star-history.com/#motiadev/motia&Date) _{Built with ❤️ by the Motia team • **Star us on GitHub if you find Motia useful!** ⭐} </div> ", Assign "at most 3 tags" to the expected json: {"id":"14032","tags":[]} "only from the tags list I provide: [{"id":77,"name":"3d"},{"id":89,"name":"agent"},{"id":17,"name":"ai"},{"id":54,"name":"algorithm"},{"id":24,"name":"api"},{"id":44,"name":"authentication"},{"id":3,"name":"aws"},{"id":27,"name":"backend"},{"id":60,"name":"benchmark"},{"id":72,"name":"best-practices"},{"id":39,"name":"bitcoin"},{"id":37,"name":"blockchain"},{"id":1,"name":"blog"},{"id":45,"name":"bundler"},{"id":58,"name":"cache"},{"id":21,"name":"chat"},{"id":49,"name":"cicd"},{"id":4,"name":"cli"},{"id":64,"name":"cloud-native"},{"id":48,"name":"cms"},{"id":61,"name":"compiler"},{"id":68,"name":"containerization"},{"id":92,"name":"crm"},{"id":34,"name":"data"},{"id":47,"name":"database"},{"id":8,"name":"declarative-gui "},{"id":9,"name":"deploy-tool"},{"id":53,"name":"desktop-app"},{"id":6,"name":"dev-exp-lib"},{"id":59,"name":"dev-tool"},{"id":13,"name":"ecommerce"},{"id":26,"name":"editor"},{"id":66,"name":"emulator"},{"id":62,"name":"filesystem"},{"id":80,"name":"finance"},{"id":15,"name":"firmware"},{"id":73,"name":"for-fun"},{"id":2,"name":"framework"},{"id":11,"name":"frontend"},{"id":22,"name":"game"},{"id":81,"name":"game-engine "},{"id":23,"name":"graphql"},{"id":84,"name":"gui"},{"id":91,"name":"http"},{"id":5,"name":"http-client"},{"id":51,"name":"iac"},{"id":30,"name":"ide"},{"id":78,"name":"iot"},{"id":40,"name":"json"},{"id":83,"name":"julian"},{"id":38,"name":"k8s"},{"id":31,"name":"language"},{"id":10,"name":"learning-resource"},{"id":33,"name":"lib"},{"id":41,"name":"linter"},{"id":28,"name":"lms"},{"id":16,"name":"logging"},{"id":76,"name":"low-code"},{"id":90,"name":"message-queue"},{"id":42,"name":"mobile-app"},{"id":18,"name":"monitoring"},{"id":36,"name":"networking"},{"id":7,"name":"node-version"},{"id":55,"name":"nosql"},{"id":57,"name":"observability"},{"id":46,"name":"orm"},{"id":52,"name":"os"},{"id":14,"name":"parser"},{"id":74,"name":"react"},{"id":82,"name":"real-time"},{"id":56,"name":"robot"},{"id":65,"name":"runtime"},{"id":32,"name":"sdk"},{"id":71,"name":"search"},{"id":63,"name":"secrets"},{"id":25,"name":"security"},{"id":85,"name":"server"},{"id":86,"name":"serverless"},{"id":70,"name":"storage"},{"id":75,"name":"system-design"},{"id":79,"name":"terminal"},{"id":29,"name":"testing"},{"id":12,"name":"ui"},{"id":50,"name":"ux"},{"id":88,"name":"video"},{"id":20,"name":"web-app"},{"id":35,"name":"web-server"},{"id":43,"name":"webassembly"},{"id":69,"name":"workflow"},{"id":87,"name":"yaml"}]" returns me the "expected json"