Install Heim

Get started with Heim in seconds

Install Heim on Mac
x64 arm64

curl -L "https://cloud.heim.dev/heim/release/download?file=heim.sh" | sh

Automatically detects Intel and Apple Silicon architectures

Install Heim on Linux
x64 arm64

curl -L "https://cloud.heim.dev/heim/release/download?file=heim.sh" | sh

Automatically detects x86_64 and ARM64 architectures

Install Heim on Windows
x64

Double click to install, done!

(It will popup and disappear immediately, that is expected)

Quick Start

Deploy your first app in minutes

Get Started

1

Start Heim

heim start
2

Create New Project

heim new
3

Choose Template

Select a starting template for the language of your choice

4

Deploy Locally

heim deploy

๐ŸŽ‰ Application deployed locally!

To deploy it to the cloud run:

heim deploy --cloud

Heim Cloud v1.0.0

Summary We're thrilled to announce the general availability of Heim Cloud v1.0.0! This milestone release introduces powerful new capabilities that make it easier than ever to build, deploy, and manage cloud applications. Key Highlights ๐Ÿš€ Expanded Application Support * Cron Jobs: Deploy scheduled tasks and automated workflows with

Aug 20, 2025 2 mins


Summary

We're thrilled to announce the general availability of Heim Cloud v1.0.0! This milestone release introduces powerful new capabilities that make it easier than ever to build, deploy, and manage cloud applications.

Key Highlights

๐Ÿš€ Expanded Application Support

  • Cron Jobs: Deploy scheduled tasks and automated workflows with native cron job support
  • Long-Running Applications: Full support for traditional applications with main functions, enabling persistent services and background workers
  • Environment Configuration: Seamless .env file support for managing application configurations

๐Ÿค– AI-Powered Development

  • MCP Server Integration: Revolutionary AI capabilities that let you go from idea to deployed application in under a minute with a single prompt. Available via our npm package

๐Ÿ‘ฅ Enhanced Collaboration & Control

  • Workspaces: Streamline development of complex systems by managing multiple related applications together - perfect for microservices architectures
  • Audit Logs: Complete visibility into organizational activities with detailed tracking of who performed what actions
  • CI/CD Integration: Generate dedicated CI tokens for seamless automated deployments from GitHub Actions and other CI pipelines

๐Ÿ“š Developer Resources

  • New Templates: Quick-start templates for cron jobs, long-running applications, and front-end frameworks (Vue, React, Preact, Lit, Svelte, Solid, Qwik) with JavaScript and TypeScript support
  • Open Source Initiative: We've open-sourced our documentation, templates, and examples to empower the community

๐Ÿ”ง Quality Improvements

  • Enhanced application interface validation ensuring your deployments meet required specifications
  • Improved application search functionality in the portal
  • Better visibility of application capabilities directly in the variables tab

This release represents our commitment to making cloud deployment accessible, powerful, and developer-friendly. We're excited to see what you'll build with Heim Cloud and would love to get your feedback!

โ†’ Getting started: https://cloud.heim.dev/heim/docs/start-here/getting-started/
โ†’ Discord: https://discord.com/invite/heim
โ†’ Raise issues on GitHub: https://github.com/Nor2-io/heim/issues

Changelog

Click to view changes in v1.0.0
  • โœจ **New:** Added support for cron job applications.
  • โœจ **New:** Added support for long-running applications (Applications with a traditional main function).
  • โœจ **New:** Added support for `.env` files.
  • โœจ **New:** Added audit logs to see who has performed what action in an organization.
  • โœจ **New:** Added workspaces to easier work with multiple applications, such as building and deploying an entire system of microservices.
  • โœจ **New:** Added MCP server support to create and deploy applications with AI automatically. You can now go from no application to a deployed application with a single prompt in one minute. Link: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@nor2/heim-mcp
  • โœจ **New:** Added the ability to see an applications capabilities on the variables tab in the portal.
  • โœจ **New:** Added the ability to create CI tokens for deployment of applications from CI pipelines, such as GitHub Actions.
  • โœจ **New:** New template for cron-job applications.
  • โœจ **New:** New template for long-running applications.
  • โœจ **New:** New template for creating front-end applications. To easier get started creating vue, react, preact, lit, svelte, solid or quick applications using JavaScript or TypeScript.
  • โœจ **New:** Open-sourced Heim docs: https://github.com/Nor2-io/heim/tree/main/heim-docs.
  • โœจ **New:** Open-sourced Heim Templates: https://github.com/Nor2-io/heim/tree/main/templates
  • โœจ **New:** Open-sourced examples: https://github.com/Nor2-io/heim/tree/main/examples
  • ๐Ÿ› ๏ธ **Improved:** Additional validation that an application fullfills the required interface has been added.
  • ๐Ÿงน **Fixed:** Fixed application search box not behaving correctly.

Heim Cloud 0.5.1

Summary We just opened the beta for Heim Cloud, a self-orchestrating platform for deploying and running applications without Kubernetes, containers, or traditional DevOps workflows. ย  ย  Heim provides a deterministic execution layer for Rust, Go, Python, C#, TypeScript, and C โ€” with built-in templates, strong sandboxing, and zero-config deployments. ย  ย  You can also generate

Jul 8, 2025 1 min