Typebase
Typebase is an open-source TypeScript backend-in-a-repo: developers put database schema, typed server actions, authentication, environment validation, and optional realtime events in a typebase/ folder inside an existing application. Its CLI generates types and deploys the backend so frontends call it like local functions, without a separate backend project or external service.
At a Glance
- JavaScript and TypeScript developers
- Full-stack and frontend teams building applications with Next.js, SvelteKit, Nuxt, or Expo
- Startups and small teams wanting a unified code-first backend workflow
- Developers using AI coding agents
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TypeScript Backend as a Folder
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Latest News
Typebase 0.1.15 released: added InferStreamEvent and CLI/core version mismatch warnings.
Typebase 0.1.14 released with streaming actions, typed publisher/realtime events, SSE client consumption, and client-plugin exports.
Typebase 0.1.13 released with db pull for importing an existing PostgreSQL schema into db/schema.ts and db/relations.ts.
Typebase 0.1.12 released; init began creating a typebase.json configuration file with an editor schema reference.
Products & Services
The runtime TypeScript library for a backend-in-a-repo. It provides the server action builder and runtime, Drizzle-based database exports, typed clients, authentication helpers, middleware, and framework auth helpers for Next.js, SvelteKit, Nuxt, Expo, React, and Vue. It is distributed under the MIT license.
The command-line tool for the backend lifecycle: scaffolding the typebase/ directory, generating types, pulling or pushing database schemas, generating auth tables, deploying servers, managing environment variables, streaming logs, and generating a local server.
An SKILL.md distributed through the Typebase repository and skills CLI that teaches coding agents the Typebase mental model, file layout, commands, and common pitfalls.
Official documentation and repository examples covering Next.js, SvelteKit, Nuxt, and Expo integrations, plus schema, actions, auth, environment, deployment, and realtime publisher guides.
Market Position
Typebase positions itself as a code-first backend-in-a-repository rather than a standalone backend project or hosted backend dashboard. Its differentiation is the single typebase/ folder, generated end-to-end types, and one CLI spanning schema, actions, auth, code generation, database operations, and deployment; this contrasts with hosted backend platforms such as Convex, Supabase, and Firebase and with narrower typed-RPC or framework-focused tools such as tRPC and framework plugins.
Founding Story
The project is built around the idea that a backend should be code inside the application's repository rather than a separate project, dashboard, or collection of loosely connected tools. Its stated design goal is to let developers define schema, actions, auth, and deployment configuration in TypeScript and ship a fully typed server with one command.
Business Model
Revenue Model
The public materials describe Typebase as an MIT-licensed open-source library and CLI installed from npm. Deployment runs on the user's selected Vercel, Cloudflare Workers, or Deno Deploy account with PostgreSQL on Neon; no paid Typebase pricing or hosted service is described in the reviewed sources.
Target Markets
- JavaScript and TypeScript developers
- Full-stack and frontend teams building applications with Next.js, SvelteKit, Nuxt, or Expo
- Startups and small teams wanting a unified code-first backend workflow
- Developers using AI coding agents
- Adding a typed backend to an existing Next.js, SvelteKit, Nuxt, Expo, or other JavaScript/TypeScript application
- CRUD applications requiring a PostgreSQL database and typed queries/mutations
- Applications needing email/password or social authentication
- Live lists, notifications, job-progress reporting, and other Server-Sent Events use cases
- Projects that want schema changes, code generation, deployment, and environment management from one CLI
- AI-assisted application development using a repository-local, code-first backend