MotiaDev/motia

🔥 The Unified Backend Framework That Eliminates Runtime Fragmentation 🔥

APIs, background jobs, workflows, and AI agents in one system. JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, and more in one codebase.

💡 Motia Manifesto • 🚀 Quick Start • 📋 Defining Steps • 📚 Docs

🎯 What is Motia?

Motia solves backend fragmentation.

Modern software engineering is splintered – APIs live in one framework, background jobs in another, queues have their own tooling, and AI agents are springing up in yet more isolated runtimes. This fragmentation demands a unified system.

Motia unifies APIs, background jobs, workflows, and AI agents into a single coherent system with shared observability and developer experience. Similar to how React simplified frontend development where everything is a component, Motia simplifies backend development where everything is a Step.

Write JavaScript, TypeScript, Python, and more in the same workflow. What used to take 5 frameworks to build now comes out of the box with Motia.

🚀 Quickstart

Get Motia project up and running in under 60 seconds:

1. Bootstrap a New Motia Project

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npx motia@latest create -i   # runs the interactive terminal

Follow the prompts to pick a template, project name, and language.

2. Start the Workbench

Inside your new project folder, launch the dev server:

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npx motia dev # ➜ http://localhost:3000

That’s it! You have:

• ✅ REST APIs with validation
• ✅ Visual debugger & tracing
• ✅ Multi-language support
• ✅ Event-driven architecture
• ✅ Zero configuration

📖 Full tutorial in our docs →

🎯 Step Types

📖 Learn more about Steps →

🎯 Examples

🏆 ChessArena.ai - Full-Featured Production App

A complete chess platform benchmarking LLM performance with real-time evaluation.

Live Website → | Source Code →

Built from scratch to production deployment, featuring:

• 🔐 Authentication & user management
• 🤖 Multi-agent LLM evaluation (OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, Grok)
• 🐍 Python engine integration (Stockfish chess evaluation)
• 📊 Real-time streaming with live move updates and scoring
• 🎨 Modern React UI with interactive chess boards
• 🔄 Event-driven workflows connecting TypeScript APIs to Python processors
• 📈 Live leaderboards with move-by-move quality scoring
• 🚀 Production deployment on Motia Cloud

📚 More Examples

View all 20+ examples →

Features demonstrated: Multi-language workflows • Real-time streaming • AI integration • Production deployment

🌐 Language Support

📚 Resources

• 📖 Documentation - Complete guides and API reference
• 💬 Discord - Community support and discussions
• 🐛 GitHub Issues - Bug reports and feature requests
• 🗺️ Roadmap - Upcoming features and progress

🚧 Roadmap

We have a public roadmap for Motia, you can view it here.

Feel free to add comments to the issues, or create a new issue if you have a feature request.

🤝 Contributing

We welcome contributions! Check our Contributing Guide to get started.