Val Town is a collaborative website to write and scale serverless JavaScript.
Create APIs, crons, and store data – in your browser, deployed in miliseconds.
What is a val? A versioned folder of deployed code
Where to start
Section titled “Where to start”If you’re new to Val Town, we recommend our quickstarts:
Your first HTTP endpoint Create a link-in-bio website
Your first cron val Send yourself a daily weather email
Local development
Section titled “Local development”Edit your vals from your favorite IDE (VSCode, Cursor, vim, etc) via our CLI.
Val Town CLI Deploy vals from your terminal
LLM Prompting Set up Cursor, Windsurf, etc to edit vals
Val Town Standard Library
Section titled “Val Town Standard Library”Our standard library includes some hosted services for data storage, email, and AI.
SQLite Store and retrieve structured data
Blob Storage Store and retrieve any data
OpenAI Use the OpenAI API
Email Send emails
API and SDK
Section titled “API and SDK” REST API Access Val Town programmatically
JavaScript SDK Interact with Val Town from JavaScript
Contact us
Section titled “Contact us”We’re here to help! If you have any questions or feedback, please reach out to us on Discord or email.