Security News
CVE Volume Surges Past 48,000 in 2025 as WordPress Plugin Ecosystem Drives Growth
CVE disclosures hit a record 48,185 in 2025, driven largely by vulnerabilities in third-party WordPress plugins.
By Sarah Gooding - Jan 09, 2026
Imba
Imba is a friendly full-stack programming language for the web that compiles to performant JavaScript. It has language-level support for defining, extending, subclassing, instantiating and rendering DOM nodes.
Get started
Try Imba instantly in your browser with our playground, or create a new project with:
npx imba create
Documentation
To get started with Imba, we recommend reading through the official guide.
Why Imba?
Minimal syntax
Imba's syntax is minimal, beautiful, and packed with clever features. It combines logic, markup and styling in a powerful way. Fewer keystrokes and less switching files mean you'll be able to build things fast.
import './util/reset.css'
global css html,body m:0 p:0 w:100% h:100%
tag login-form < form
css input rd:md bc:gray3 h:20px fs:md
css button rd:md c:white bg:gray4 @hover:blue4
<self @submit.prevent=api.login(name,secret)>
<input.username type='text' bind=name>
<input.password type='password' bind=secret>
<button> "Login as {name}"
imba.mount <login-form[pos:abs d:grid ja:center]>
Runs on both server and client
Imba powers both the frontend and the backend of Scrimba.com, our learning platform with 100K+ monthly active users. On the frontend, Imba replaces e.g., Vue or React, and on the backend, it works with the Node ecosystem (e.g., npm).
import express from 'express'
import services from './services.ts'
import html from './index.html'
import image from './confused-cat.png'
const app = express!
app.get '/404' do (req,res)
res.send String <html> <body>
<img src=image>
<h1> "We could not find this page!"
app.get '/' do (req,res)
res.send html.body
Integrated styling
Inspired by Tailwind, Imba brings styles directly into your code. Styles can be scoped to files, components, and even parts of your tag trees. Style modifiers like @hover, @lg, @landscape and @dark can be used for extremely concise yet powerful styling.
# global styles
global css button
position: relative
display: block
background: #b2f5ea
@hover background: #b2f9ea
# tailwind-inspired shorthands
global css button
pos:relative d:block bg:blue5 bg@hover:blue6
tag App
# scoped styles
css item bg:blue4 m:2
<self[d:grid pos:relative]> # inline styles
<ul> for {type,title} in items
<li.item is-{type}> title
Blazing fast, Zero config
Imba comes with a built-in bundler based on the blazing fast esbuild. Import stylesheets, images, typescript, html, workers and more without any configuration. Bundling is so fast that there is no difference between production and development mode - it all happens on-demand.
# importing a worker
const worker = import.worker './analyzer'
const analyzer = new Worker(worker.url)
# import an image
const logo = import './images/logo.png'
console.log "logo size: {logo.width}x{logo.height} - at {logo.url}"
When you run your app with the imba command, it automatically bundles and compiles your imba code, along with typescript, css and many other file types. It provides automatic reloading of both the server and client.
Typing and tooling
The tooling is implemented as a typescript server plugin giving us great intellisense, diagnostics, and even cross-file refactorings that works with js/ts files in the same project. You can import types just like in typescript, and annotate variables, parameters and expressions. Like the language, the tooling is still in alpha, but improving every day.
import type { CookieOptions } from 'express-serve-static-core'
def flash res\Response, body\string, settings = {}
let options\CookieOptions = {
...settings
maxAge: 86400
secure: true
httpOnly: false
}
res.cookie('flash',body,options)
Community
For questions and support, please use our community chat on Discord.
License
Copyright (c) 2015-present, Sindre Aarsaether
Keywords
FAQs
Intuitive and powerful language for building webapps that fly
We found that imba demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
Package last updated on 06 Jun 2025
Did you know?
Socket for GitHub automatically highlights issues in each pull request and monitors the health of all your open source dependencies. Discover the contents of your packages and block harmful activity before you install or update your dependencies.
Related posts
Security News
Insecure Agents Podcast: Certified Patches, Supply Chain Security, and AI Agents
Socket CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh joins Insecure Agents to discuss CVE remediation and why supply chain attacks require a different security approach.
By Sarah Gooding - Jan 08, 2026
Security News
Tailwind CSS Announces 75% Layoffs as LLMs Reshape OSS Business Models
Tailwind Labs laid off 75% of its engineering team after revenue dropped 80%, as LLMs redirect traffic away from documentation where developers discover paid products.
By Sarah Gooding - Jan 08, 2026