I didn’t set out to build a web engine. I set out to solve a frustration I kept running into over and over again: Every project felt like starting from zero. Different stack. Different patterns. Different rules. Same problems. The Illusion of Progress We’ve made huge progress in web development: Better frameworks Better tooling Better DX But under the surface, we’re still doing the same things: Rebuilding API layers Rewiring state management Reconfiguring infrastructure Re-learning patterns per stack We didn’t remove complexity. We just moved it around. The Real Problem: No Shared Contract The biggest issue isn’t tooling. It’s the lack of a shared contract between layers. UI doesn’t know your API structure APIs don’t strongly enforce shape beyond runtime Infrastructure is configured separately from application logic Everything is loosely connected, but not intentionally designed to work together. What Is a Web Engine? A web engine is not a framework. It’s not just a library.…