Val Town Projects
Hello! We at Val Town have spent the last couple months redesigning our product around a new core primitive: Val Town Projects. Why: Our prior core primitive, a "val", was too small. A val is just a single hosted JavaScript file. Users kept bumping up against rough edges managing lots of disparate vals. What: A Val Town Project is a group of vals, files, and folders, versioned collectively. They support branches, forks, and merges. How: We made the sacrilegious decision to not build on git. We instead built a simplified system that works directly in our postgres database. Our dream is that…
In plain words
Val Town Projects is a platform for organizing and managing multiple hosted JavaScript files together as a unified unit. It groups vals, files, and folders with built-in support for branches, forks, and merges—using a simplified versioning system stored directly in a database rather than git. The tool is designed for developers who found managing individual vals cumbersome and need better collaboration features for larger codebases.
written from the facts on this page · September 2026
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In the maker’s words, at launch
Hello! We at Val Town have spent the last couple months redesigning our product around a new core primitive: Val Town Projects. Why: Our prior core primitive, a "val", was too small. A val is just a single hosted JavaScript file. Users kept bumping up against rough edges managing lots of disparate vals. What: A Val Town Project is a group of vals, files, and folders, versioned collectively. They support branches, forks, and merges. How: We made the sacrilegious decision to not build on git. We instead built a simplified system that works directly in our postgres database. Our dream is that Val Town Projects will unlock a new kind of collaboration, and we hope you all make amazing things with it!
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