Val Town has gotten a lot more powerful.

Vals now support multiple files, folders, and branches. You can edit vals locally with your favorite editor via the vt CLI. Townie, our AI coding assistant, uses Claude 4 Sonnet to agentically read and write your vals. We've been supporting companies using Val Town to automate workflows and build internal tools.

Our roadmap is packed with the powerful features you've been requesting: Team Accounts, SOC2, Logs & Traces API, OAuth, and much more.

As always, we save the best part of the newsletter for last: a collection of the best new vals from all of you in the community 🤩

🗂️ Multi-file Vals

We rebuilt vals from the ground-up to support multiple files and folders. Vals are now like GitHub repos – including branches and pull requests – but the code is instantly deployed, and scales as hosted web services. We rebuilt Townie, Search, and even this very blog you're reading right now as vals.

As show in this video above, vals now support:

🦾 New Townie

We rebuilt Townie from the ground-up around multi-file vals. It uses agentic tool-calling, powered by Claude 4 Sonnet, to read and write your code. It can even make test HTTP calls to see how things are working, and keep iterating from there.

Townie is available only for Val Town Pro users during a limited free preview. We are adding the ability to purchase credits.

Because Townie was built 100% open-source and in userspace, you can read the code, system prompts, and even remix & run it in your account. Pull requests welcome.

＞ Local development

One of the biggest feature request for Val Town has always been to edit vals with your favorite editor. Now you can with the vt CLI.

The vt watch command brings the classic Val Town deploy-on-every-save experience to your favorite IDE. (Especially with the browser extension that automatically reloads your browser tab.) However, that doesn't mean you're deploying to production on every save. As shown in the video above, Val Town means you're always developing directly in your production environment, but you choose when to deploy directly on main or in a branch preview that you can merge in when ready.

Val Town for Teams

If you think Val Town is useful in your personal life, wait till you bring it to work! Our customers have saved hundreds of hours building custom tools like:

GitHub x Slack Automations: Auto-assign PRs, enforce labels, streamline PR approvals, and surface GitHub issues in Slack.Hubspot Leads Deep Research: Generate AI deep research-powered reports on new HubSpot leads. Optionally convert them into audio feeds for on-the-go listening.Discord → Linear Tickets: React to messages with a designated emoji to instantly create a Linear ticket, with full context.Changelog Generator: Auto-generate changelogs from GitHub commits and share them in Discord for review before publishing.

We'd love to help you too! Our Val Town for Teams plan includes private VIP support on Slack Connect, hands-on help building custom workflows and onboarding your team, and higher limits across the board.

💌 Email charmaine@val.town to save your team hours every week.

New Search

We rebuilt Val Town Search for the multi-file vals. It's much faster and gives exact matches. (It runs on Val Town SQLite, and uses like.) It searches across public val source code, usernames, and our docs.

Search was built 100% open-source & in userspace. With one-click, you can remix it to your account: it'll start reading from the public val firehose API, and index all public val code into your Val Town SQLite. If you want to make an improvement to search, or build something on top of that index, please do! The power of userspace 💪

Town Hall

We held our very first Val Town Hall!

We got a chance to share what we're building at Val Town, and see 9 lovely demos from the community. Everybody really pulled together to make it an action-packed hour. If you're curious to know what's going on in the town, this is a must-watch.

Val Town Hall #2

We scheduled the next Val Town Hall for June 25th, 12pm ET. Register here to participate or demo.

Roadmap

Logs & Traces API (to power vt tail & Townie reading logs)UI improvements branch & pull request flowsUI improvements to LogsDeno LSP to dramatically improve the browser editing experienceTownie credits & other improvementsUI improvements to val version historyTeam Accounts"Login with Val Town" OAuthSOC2Ability to lock/protect a main branchComments on vals (again, but better, ie on lines)Comments on pull requestsImprove the discoverability of valsBinary file support in valsInfinite scale vals with usage-based pricingWebSocket valsUI & keyboard affordances to help you import from Val Town, npm, jsr

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He also made subcurrentShuffle with Townie in 15 minutes at that same meetup!Cam Pak made groq-api, a simple API using the AI SDK and Groq.mgmarlow made aposd-red-flags, a simple flashcard app to help learn about common software design red flags from the book A Philosophy of Software Design by John Ousterhout.JJG made blockbench-plugin, which fetches JavaScript or TypeScript files from GitHub repositories or Gists and serves them with the proper content type headers.Steve Krouse made luciaMagicLinkStarter to roll-your-own auth & magic link login using Lucia.Max made sqlitelogs, a logging system that stores logs in SQLite with a web interface and search functionality.orjpap made a blog analytics system using Val Town's SQLite to track visitors and page views.Payton made Privy Pay, a tap to pay experience with Farcaster mini apps using NFC technology.yawnxyz made andp, a demo of embedding Observable in Val Town.neverstew made voweltown, an interactive website to explore vowels across different languages.