ShipThing aims to provide a robust, type-safe database client that makes it easy to work with your database while maintaining strong typing throughout your application. We aim to support tooling that:
  • Provide a declarative way to define your database schema
  • Generate type-safe database client
  • Handle database migrations
  • Offer powerful query capabilities with full TypeScript support

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Default Configuration

By default, ShipThing uses Neon as its database provider and Prisma as its ORM. However, you can easily switch to other providers if you’d prefer, for example:

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Usage

Database and ORM configuration is located in @repo/database. You can import this package into any server-side component, like so: 
import { database } from '@repo/database';

const Page = async () => {
  const users = await database.user.findMany();

  // Do something with users!
}

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Schema Definition

The database schema is defined in packages/database/prisma/schema.prisma. This schema file uses Prisma’s schema definition language to describe your database tables, relationships, and types.

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Adding a new model

Let’s say we want to add a new model called Post, describing a blog post. The blog content will be in a JSON format, generated by a library like Tiptap. To do this, we would add the following to your schema:
packages/database/prisma/schema.prisma
model Post {
  id        String   @id @default(cuid())
  title     String
  content   Json
  createdAt DateTime @default(now())
  updatedAt DateTime @updatedAt
}

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Deploying changes

To deploy your schema changes, run the following command:
Terminal
pnpm migrate
This runs the following commands:
  • npx prisma format to format the schema file
  • npx prisma generate to generate the Prisma client
  • npx prisma db push to push the schema changes to the database

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Visual database editor

The studio application runs on port 3005.
ShipThing includes Prisma Studio, which is a visual editor for your database. To start it, run the following command:
Terminal
pnpm --filter database dev