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Backplane

Show the system, not the screenshot.

Lets a backend engineer write up the systems they built, with scale, data model, trade-offs and results, and download the finished site as one HTML file.

Download the source

Zip, 292 KB. MIT licence. Built 23 Oct 2026.

Live preview

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This is the real site, not a mock-up. Click around; the button on it opens the working app.

What you get

Everything a website needs, already done.

Pages and screens

  • System write-ups
  • Stack matrix
  • Role timeline
  • Theme preview
  • Export
  • Launch page

Features

  • Guided sections with required fields
  • Reorder pages
  • Preview in terminal, paper and blueprint themes
  • Autosaves in the browser
  • JSON backup and import
  • One-file static HTML export
  • Printable résumé

Palette

  • #3a45c9
  • #2f39a8
  • #e8eafc
  • #ffffff
  • #1b1c1f
  • #eeeee9

Style

  • Editorial
  • Minimal
  • Dark
Backplane on a phone
On a phone, as shipped.

For developers

A real codebase, not a page builder export.

Stack

Vite, React 19 and TypeScript for the app. The launch page is plain HTML, CSS and a little JavaScript with no build step. Vitest for unit tests, Playwright for browser tests.

Run it

unzip backplane.zip
cd backplane
npm install
npm run dev

In the zip

  • site/ the launch page with the built app in site/app/
  • src/ and e2e/ the app source and tests
  • docs/technical-docs/ architecture, runbook, quick reference
  • START-HERE.md and LICENSE (MIT)

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