membrane-roles

What is membrane-roles and what is it for?

membrane-roles is a public module repository from the holochain-open-dev group, holding a Holochain zome and a web-component interface meant to be taken into a larger app rather than run on its own. The repository still carries the group's reusable-module template as its documentation, so what it publishes describes the module pattern it follows rather than the role logic inside it.

membrane-roles is a public repository under the holochain-open-dev organisation, which hosts reusable building blocks for Holochain apps. Its structure follows the organisation's reusable-module template: a zome for the backend, written in Rust, and a web-component interface published as an npm package. The repository's README is that template, unedited, and it describes a calendar-events example rather than membrane roles, so the project itself publishes no account of what its roles code does.

The shape is that of a building block rather than an app. A module of this kind is designed to be included in someone else's DNA, assuming as little as possible from the app around it, and its interface is offered as custom elements that work across browsers and frameworks. A developer would take the zome into their own Holochain application and wire its elements into their front end, rather than installing membrane-roles as software to run.

Activity is recorded as stalled, with the latest recorded push in June 2022 and no release listed, so the repository is best read as a historical entry from an early period of reusable Holochain modules rather than a currently maintained one; the compatibility panel carries the version it was recorded against. The repository is the project's only page, and that is where to read it.

From 2 public sources, checked 23 September 2026.