Answerflow is a high-performance, open-source community and Q&A platform built for modern developer communities. It provides a robust, extensible architecture right out of the box.
Building a scalable community platform from scratch is incredibly difficult. Engineering teams often waste months reinventing the wheel because they have to worry about:
- Markdown Rendering: Handling complex code blocks, AST parsing, and XSS sanitization.
- Real-time Engagement: Building notification pipelines, mentions, and activity feeds.
- Performance: Optimizing for SEO and lightning-fast initial page loads.
- Security: Protecting against CSRF, bot spam, and database injection.
Answerflow solves these problems out of the box, giving you a self-hosted, enterprise-grade engine.
- Enterprise Monorepo Architecture: Built using Next.js App Router and Turborepo for lightning-fast builds and clean separation of backend packages.
- Provider Agnostic: Designed for maximum flexibility with support for multiple Email Providers, Queue Adapters, and S3-compatible storage.
- Cross-Platform & Admin Ready: Includes a dedicated Mobile App (Expo) and a comprehensive, built-in Admin Panel right out of the box.
- High-Performance UI: Engineered to handle massive data sets smoothly using advanced frontend techniques like virtualization and cursor-based pagination.
- Rich Markdown Experience: Deeply integrated, secure markdown editors featuring real-time syntax highlighting via our custom
@codearcade/markdownpackage.
Ask detailed questions and provide formatted answers using our robust rich-text editor with native code-block support and syntax highlighting.
Stay in the loop without the noise. Get real-time alerts for mentions, answers, and bookmarks, and tweak your preferences at any time.
The most up-to-date documentation is available at answerflow.codearcade.io. You can also run it locally or browse the source files below.
To get started right away, please read:
This project is a Turborepo monorepo using pnpm.
pnpm installTo develop all apps and packages:
pnpm devYou can develop a specific app by using a filter:
pnpm dev --filter webWe welcome contributions! Please carefully read our CONTRIBUTING.md to understand our required workflow, including commit message formats, linting (we use Biome!), and architectural guidelines.
This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. See the LICENSE file for details.