bknd

bknd simplifies app development by providing fully functional backend for data management, authentication, workflows and media. Since it's lightweight and built on Web Standards, it can be deployed nearly anywhere, including running inside your framework of choice. No more deploying multiple separate services!

For documentation and examples, please visit https://docs.bknd.io.

[!WARNING] Please keep in mind that bknd is still under active development and therefore full backward compatibility is not guaranteed before reaching v1.0.0.

✨ Features

📊 Data: Define, query, and control your data with ease.

• Define entities with fields and relationships, synced directly to your database.
• Supported field types: primary, text, number, date, boolean, enum, json, jsonschema.
• Relationship types: one-to-one, many-to-one, many-to-many, and polymorphic.
• Advanced querying with the Repository: filtering, sorting, pagination, and relational data handling.
• Seamlessly manage data with mutators and a robust event system.
• Extend database functionality with batching, introspection, and support for multiple SQL dialects.

🔐 Auth: Easily implement reliable authentication strategies.

• Built-in user entity with customizable fields.
• Supports multiple authentication strategies:
  • Email/password (with hashed storage).
  • OAuth/OIDC (Google, GitHub, and more).
• Secure JWT generation and session management.

🖼️ Media: Effortlessly manage and serve all your media files.

• Upload files with ease.
• Adapter-based support for S3, S3-compatible storage (e.g., R2, Tigris), and Cloudinary.

🔄 Flows (UI integration coming soon!): Design and run workflows with seamless automation.

• Create and run workflows with trigger-based automation:
  • Manual triggers or events from data, auth, media, or server actions.
  • HTTP triggers for external integrations.
• Define tasks in sequence, parallel, or loops, with conditional execution.
• Use reusable sub-workflows to organize complex processes.
• Leverage OpenAPI specifications for API-based tasks.

🚀 Quick start

To quickly spin up an instance, run:

npx bknd run

Installation

npm install bknd