TinyBase is a reactive in-memory data store with persistence and synchronization for local-first JavaScript and TypeScript apps that need to feel instant, work offline, and stay consistent when they come back online.
"The one with SQL Server & TinyJoin!"
Create a todo list, a chat app, a drawing tool, a charting app, or a tic-tac-toe game - with sync & persistence! - in less than 60s.
> npm create tinybase@latest
📦 Creating your project...TinyBase lets you listen to changes made to any part of your data. This means your app will be fast, since you only spend rendering cycles on things that change. The optional bindings to React, pre-built components, and charts let you easily build fully reactive UIs on top of TinyBase. You even get a built-in undo stack, and developer tools!
Consumer app? Enterprise app? Or even a game? Model key-value data and tabular data with optional typed schematization, whatever its data structures. There are built-in indexing, metric aggregation, and tabular relationships APIs - and a powerful query engine to select, join, filter, and group data (reactively!) without SQL.
TinyBase has native CRDT support, meaning that you can deterministically synchronize and merge data across multiple sources, clients, and servers. And although TinyBase is an in-memory data store, you can easily persist your data to file, browser storage, IndexedDB, SQLite or PostgreSQL databases, and more.
TinyBase works anywhere that JavaScript does, but it's especially great for local-first apps: where data is stored locally on the user's device and that can be run offline. It's tiny by name, tiny by nature: just 7.3kB - 16.4kB and with no dependencies - yet 100% tested, fully documented, and of course, open source!
React
Solid
Svelte
IndexedDB
OPFS
SQLite
Bun SQLite
Expo SQLite
Capacitor
Turso
PowerSync
PostgreSQL
PGlite
SQL Server
TinyJoin
Neon
Supabase
Cloudflare
PartyKit
YJS
Automerge
Zod
TypeBox
Valibot
ArkType
Yup
Effect(Baffled by all these logos? Check out our architectural options guide to make sense of it all!)
Creating a Store requires just a simple call to the createStore function. Once you have one, you can easily set Values in it by unique Id. And of course you can easily get them back out again.
Read more about using keyed value data in The Basics guide.
import {createStore} from 'tinybase';
const store = createStore()
.setValues({employees: 3})
.setValue('open', true);
console.log(store.getValues());
// -> {employees: 3, open: true}For other types of data applications, a tabular data structure is more useful. TinyBase lets you set and get nested Table, Row, or Cell data, by unique Id - and in the same Store as the keyed values!
Read more about setting and changing data in The Basics guide.
store
.setTable('pets', {fido: {species: 'dog'}})
.setCell('pets', 'fido', 'color', 'brown');
console.log(store.getRow('pets', 'fido'));
// -> {species: 'dog', color: 'brown'}The magic starts to happen when you register listeners on a Value, Table, Row, or Cell. They get called when any part of that object changes. You can also use wildcards - useful when you don't know the Id of the objects that might change.
Read more about listeners in the Listening To Stores guide.
const listenerId = store.addTableListener('pets', () =>
console.log('changed'),
);
store.setCell('pets', 'fido', 'sold', false);
// -> 'changed'
store.delListener(listenerId);If you're using React, Solid, or Svelte in your application, the optional ui-react module, ui-solid module, or ui-svelte module provide hooks and functions to bind to the data in a Store.
For example, the useCell hook in this example fetches the dog's color. But it also registers a listener on that cell that will fire and re-render the component whenever the value changes!
Basically you simply describe what data you want in your user interface and TinyBase will take care of the whole lifecycle of updating it for you.
Read more about the using hooks in the Using React Hooks guide and the Building UIs With Svelte guide.
import React from 'react';
import {createRoot} from 'react-dom/client';
import {useCell} from 'tinybase/ui-react';
const App1 = () => {
const color = useCell('pets', 'fido', 'color', store);
return <>Color: {color}</>;
};
const app = document.createElement('div');
const root = createRoot(app);
root.render(<App1 />);
console.log(app.innerHTML);
// -> 'Color: brown'
store.setCell('pets', 'fido', 'color', 'walnut');
console.log(app.innerHTML);
// -> 'Color: walnut'
root.unmount();The UI modules also provide bare React, Solid, and Svelte components that let you build up a fully reactive user interface based on a Store.
It's super easy to wire up tabular display of your data with lots of customization and interactivity options.
Try them out in the UI Components (React), Chart Components (React), UI Components (Solid), and UI Components (Svelte) demos, and read more in the Building UIs guides.
Render TinyBase data and queries directly as responsive, styleable SVG charts with the ui-react-dom-charts module. These charts update reactively when data changes, and are composable with labels, bounds, ticks, and time-aware x-axes.
Try the Chart Components (React) demos, or read more in the Using Charts guide.
If you are building a web application with React or Svelte, the Inspector component lets you overlay a view of the data in your Store, Indexes, Relationships, and so on. You can even edit the data in place and see it update in your app immediately.
Read more about this powerful new tool in the Inspecting Data guide.
Want clean data? You can add a ValuesSchema or a TablesSchema to a Store to ensure that they are always what you expect by constraining types, and providing defaults. There are even TypeScript definitions that infer API types from the data schemas you apply.
And our 'schematizer' modules let you convert schemas from libraries like Zod, TypeBox, Valibot, ArkType, Yup, and Effect Schema into TinyBase at runtime.
Read more about schemas in the Schemas guide.
store.setTablesSchema({
pets: {
species: {type: 'string'},
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