pglite

Lightweight Postgres packaged as WASM into a TypeScript library for the browser, Node.js, Bun and Deno (by electric-sql)

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pglite reviews and mentions

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  • Show HN: I open-sourced the in-memory PostgreSQL I built at work for E2E tests
    9 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Apr 2024
    Hey HN! For a few months, I've been building pgmock at work for our E2E and unit test suite. It emulates Postgres in WebAssembly and has full feature parity with production databases.

    The cool thing about it is that you don't need any external processes or proxies. If your platform can run WASM (Node.js, browser, etc.), it can probably run pgmock. Creating a new database with mock data is as simple as creating a JavaScript object.

    It's a bit different from the amazing pglite [1] (which inspired me to open-source pgmock in the first place). While pgmock runs an x86 emulator, pglite compiles a Postgres fork to native WASM directly and is hence much faster and more lightweight. However, it only supports single-user mode and a select few extensions, so you can't connect to it with normal Postgres clients (which is quite crucial for E2E testing).

    Theoretically, it could be modified to run any Docker image on WebAssembly platforms. Anything specific you'd like to see?

    Happy hacking!

    [1] https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite

  • Pgmock: In-memory Postgres for unit/E2E tests
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 4 Apr 2024
  • Soul: A SQLite REST and Realtime Server
    8 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 19 Mar 2024
    I've found postgres via docker to be fine for dev and testing, but there are various epheremal postgres scripts, plus this could be promising for node stuff https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite if it works out. I'd imagine if this does work out we'll see the same kind of builds for other runtimes as well (like python)
  • The Cell Programming Language
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 7 Mar 2024
    > Use SQLite for everything, or Postgres if you outgrow it.

    Or both! ElectricSQL syncs front end SQLlite back to server side postgres. And they just rebuilt postgres on pure WASM (https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite). All ties together with a CRDT.

    I'm not affiliated, but just think it's just cool to imagine calls to front end sqllite as the be-all-end-all.

  • Testcontainers
    16 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 27 Feb 2024
  • PGlite – Postgres in WASM
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 22 Feb 2024
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electric-sql/pglite is an open source project licensed under Apache License 2.0 which is an OSI approved license.

The primary programming language of pglite is TypeScript.


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