typed-pocketbase

Add types to the PocketBase JavaScript SDK.

Installation

# npm
npm i typed-pocketbase

# pnpm
pnpm i typed-pocketbase

# yarn
yarn add typed-pocketbase

Usage

Generate the types:

npx typed-pocketbase --email [email protected] --password supersecretpassword -o Database.d.ts

The codegen tool will look for POCKETBASE_EMAIL and POCKETBASE_PASSWORD environment variables if the email or password are not passed using cli options.

Create a PocketBase client:

import PocketBase from 'pocketbase';
import { TypedPocketBase } from 'typed-pocketbase';
import { Schema } from './Database';

const db = new TypedPocketBase<Schema>('http://localhost:8090');

Enjoy full type-safety:

import { neq } from 'typed-pocketbase';

db.from('posts').getFullList({
	select: {
		id: true,
		title: true,
		content: true,
		expand: {
			owner: {
				username: true
			}
		}
	}
	sort: '-date',
	filter: neq('content', '')
});

Selecting fields

const showId = Math.random() < 0.5;

db.from('posts').getFullList({
	select: {
		id: showId,
		title: true,
		content: true
	}
});

Filtering columns

Use the and, or and other utility functions to filter rows:

import { and, or, eq, gte, lt } from 'typed-pocketbase';

// get all posts created in 2022
db.from('posts').getFullList({
	// a "manual" filter is a tuple of length 3
	filter: and(['date', '<', '2023-01-01'], ['data', '>=', '2022-01-01'])
});

// get all posts expect for those created in 2022
db.from('posts').getFullList({
	filter: or(['date', '>=', '2023-01-01'], ['data', '<', '2022-01-01'])
});

// get all posts that were create at '2023-01-01'
db.from('posts').getFullList({ filter: eq('date', '2023-01-01') });

// combine or/and with helpers and manual filters
db.from('posts').getFullList({
	filter: or(
		//
		['date', '>=', '2023-01-01'],
		lt('date', '2022-01-01')
	)
});

// conditionally filter rows
// falsy values are excluded
db.from('posts').getFullList({
	filter: and(
		//
		gte('date', '2022-01-01'),
		!untilNow && lt('date', '2023-01-01')
	)
});

// filter for columns in relations
// works up to 6 levels deep, including the top level
db.from('posts').getFullList({
	filter: eq('owner.name', 'me')
});

Most filter operators are available as short hand function.

Visit the pocketbase documentation to find out about all filters in the List/Search records section.

Sorting rows

db.from('posts').getFullList({
	// sort by descending 'date'
	sort: '-date'
});

db.from('posts').getFullList({
	// sort by descending 'date' and ascending 'title'
	sort: ['-date', '+title']
});

// conditionally sort rows
// falsy values are excluded
db.from('posts').getFullList({
	sort: ['-date', sortTitle && '+title']
});

Expanding

In typed-pocketbase expanding happens automatically when using select.

db.from('posts').getFullList({
	select: {
		expand: {
			user: true
		}
	}
});

// select nested columns
db.from('posts').getFullList({
	select: {
		expand: {
			user: {
				name: true
				avatar: true
			}
		}
	}
});

// nested expand
db.from('posts').getFullList({
	select:{
		expand: {
			user: {
				expand: {
					profile: true
				}
			}
		}
	}
});

Back relation expanding is support aswell:

db.from('user').getFullList({
	select: {
		expand: {
			'posts(user)': {
				title: true,
				created: true
			}
		}
	}
});

Helper methods:

createSelect

const select = db.from('posts').createSelect({
	id: true,
	content: true,
	owner: true,
	collectionName: true,
	asd: true,
	expand: {
		owner: {
			username: true,
			email: true
		}
	}
});

createFilter

const filter = db
	.from('posts')
	.createFilter(or(eq('content', 'bla'), eq('published', true)));

createSort

const sort = db.from('posts').createSort('+id', '-date');

License

MIT