libsql-stateless

libsql-stateless

Thin libSQL stateless HTTP driver for TypeScript and JavaScript for the edge 🚀

• ✅ Supported runtime environments: Web API (browser, serverless), Bun, Node.js (>=18)
• ✅ Extremely thin: Has no dependency, only has a few functions that implement the Hrana v3 HTTP protocol from scratch, and has no classes (tend to duplicate memory and/or perform long memory traversals).
• ✅ Does no extra computation.
• ✅ Has no premature optimizations.
• ✅ Is extremely light: 2KB (minified)/ 899B (minified+gzipped)
• ✅ Unlike @libsql/client/web, every function performs complete execution in exactly 1 roundtrip.
• ✅ Is built for: Quick stateless query execution. (Mainly for serverless and edge functions.)
• ✅ Supports everything in @libsql/client/web
• ⚠️ Interactive transactions are not supported because this lib is stateless but transactions are supported.
• ⚠️ The API provided by libsql-stateless is raw and explicit for reducing (computational and memory) overheads.

For easier DX, consider using libsql-stateless-easy instead: it, however, comes with the cost of non-zero-dependency and (computational and memory) overheads potentially unneeded by you. But is still very very very slim compared to @libsql/client.

Why not just use @libsql/client/web?

1. Not everyone needs stateful DB connection or the overheads that come with it.
2. To provide a simpler API, @libsql/client/web does a lot of, I'd argue unnecessary, computation under the hood.
   Many people would rather use a more complex API than have worse performance.

Installation

$ npm i libsql-stateless #pnpm, yarn, etc.
# or
$ bun add libsql-stateless

Goto WIKI for Specifications and Examples

TODO

• Switch to protobuf from json? (not really needed if not reading thousands of rows/s)