NGINX Unit

Universal web app server§

NGINX Unit is a lightweight and versatile application runtime that provides the essential components for your web application as a single open-source server: running application code (including WebAssembly), serving static assets, handling TLS and request routing.

Unit was created by nginx team members from scratch to be highly efficient and fully configurable at runtime. The latest version is 1.33.0, released on Sep 18, 2024.

  • See a quickstart guide on our GitHub page.
  • Browse the changelog, see the release notes in the news archive, or subscribe to our RSS feed.
  • Check out the discussion of our key features for further details.
  • Peek at our future plans with a GitHub-based roadmap.

Watch the entire NGINX Unit tutorial course here.