pocketbase

PocketBase JavaScript SDK

Official JavaScript SDK (browser and node) for interacting with the PocketBase API.

• Installation
• Examples
• Caveats
• Definitions
• Development

Installation

Browser (manually via script tag)

<script src="/path/to/dist/pocketbase.umd.js"></script>

OR if you are using ES modules:

<script type="module">
    import PocketBase from '/path/to/dist/pocketbase.es.mjs'
    ...
</script>

Node.js (via npm)

npm install pocketbase --save

// Using ES modules (default)
import PocketBase from 'pocketbase'

// OR if you are using CommonJS modules
const PocketBase = require('pocketbase/cjs')

🔧 For Node < 17 you'll need to load a fetch() polyfill. I recommend lquixada/cross-fetch:

// npm install cross-fetch --save
require('cross-fetch/polyfill');

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🔧 Node doesn't have native EvenSource implementation, so in order to use the realtime service (aka. client.Realtime.subscribe()) you'll need to load a EventSource polyfill. I recommend EventSource/eventsource:

// npm install eventsource --save
global.EventSource = require('eventsource');

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Examples

import PocketBase from 'pocketbase';

const client = new PocketBase('http://localhost:8090');

...

// list and filter "demo" collection records
const result = await client.Records.getList("demo", 1, 20, {
    filter: "status = true && totalComments > 0"
});

// authenticate as regular user
const userData = await client.Users.authViaEmail("[e-mail]", "123456");


// or as admin
const adminData = await client.Admins.authViaEmail("[e-mail]", "123456");

// and much more...

More detailed API docs and copy-paste examples could be found in the API documentation for each service.

Caveats

Errors handling

Each request error response is wrapped and normalized in a ClientResponseError object with the following fields:

ClientResponseError {
    url:           string,     // requested url
    status:        number,     // response status code
    data:          { ... },    // the api json error response
    isAbort:       boolean,    // is abort/cancellation error
    originalError: Error|null, // the original non-normalized error
}

Auto cancellation

The SDK client auto cancel duplicated pending requests. For example, if you have the following 3 duplicated calls, only the last one will be executed, while the first 2 will be cancelled with ClientResponseError error:

client.Records.getList("demo", 1, 20) // cancelled
client.Records.getList("demo", 1, 20) // cancelled
client.Records.getList("demo", 1, 20) // executed

To change this behavior, you could make use of 2 special query parameters:

• $autoCancel - set it to false to disable auto cancellation for this request
• $cancelKey - set it to a string that will be used as request identifier and based on which pending duplicated requests will be matched (default to HTTP_METHOD + url, eg. "get /api/users?page=1")

Example:

client.Records.getList("demo", 1, 20);                           // cancelled
client.Records.getList("demo", 1, 20);                           // executed
client.Records.getList("demo", 1, 20, { "$autoCancel": false }); // executed
client.Records.getList("demo", 1, 20, { "$autoCancel": false })  // executed
client.Records.getList("demo", 1, 20, { "$cancelKey": "test" })  // cancelled
client.Records.getList("demo", 1, 20, { "$cancelKey": "test" })  // executed

To manually cancel pending requests, you could use client.cancelAllRequests() or client.cancelRequest(cancelKey).

AuthStore

The SDK keeps track of the authenticated token and auth model for you via the client.AuthStore instance. It has the following public fields that you can use:

AuthStore {
    token:   string,     // the authenticated token
    model:   User|Admin, // the authenticated User or Admin model
    isValid: boolean,    // checks if the store has existing and unexpired token
    clear(),             // "logout" the authenticated User or Admin
    save(token, model),  // update the store with the new auth data
}

By default the SDK initialize a LocalAuthStore, which uses the browser's LocalStorage if available, otherwise - will fallback to runtime/memory store (aka. on page refresh or service restart you'll have to authenticate again).

To "logout" an authenticated user or admin, you can just call client.AuthStore.clear().

Definitions

Creating new client instance

const client = new PocketBase(
    baseUrl = '/',
    lang = 'en-US',
    authStore = LocalAuthStore
);

Instance methods

Each instance method returns the PocketBase instance allowing chaining.

Method	Description
client.send(path, reqConfig = {})	Sends an api http request.
client.cancelAllRequests()	Cancels all pending requests.
client.cancelRequest(cancelKey)	Cancels single request by its cancellation token key.
client.buildUrl(path, reqConfig = {})	Builds a full client url by safely concatenating the provided path.

API services

Each service call returns a Promise object with the API response.

Resource	Description
Admins
🔓client.Admins.authViaEmail(email, password, bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Authenticate an admin account by its email and password and returns a new admin token and admin data.
🔐client.Admins.refresh(bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Refreshes the current admin authenticated instance and returns a new admin token and admin data.
🔓client.Admins.requestPasswordReset(email, bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Sends admin password reset request.
🔓client.Admins.confirmPasswordReset(passwordResetToken, password, passwordConfirm, bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Confirms admin password reset request.
🔐client.Admins.getList(page = 1, perPage = 30, queryParams = {})	Returns paginated admins list.
🔐client.Admins.getFullList(batchSize = 100, queryParams = {})	Returns a list with all admins batch fetched at once.
🔐client.Admins.getOne(id, queryParams = {})	Returns single admin by its id.
🔐client.Admins.create(bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Creates a new admin.
🔐client.Admins.update(id, bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Updates an existing admin by its id.
🔐client.Admins.delete(id, bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Deletes an existing admin by its id.
Users
🔓client.Users.listAuthMethods(queryParams = {})	Returns all available application auth methods.
🔓client.Users.authViaEmail(email, password, bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Authenticate a user account by its email and password and returns a new user token and user data.
🔓client.Users.authViaOAuth2(clientName, code, codeVerifier, redirectUrl, bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Authenticate a user via OAuth2 client provider.
🔐client.Users.refresh(bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Refreshes the current user authenticated instance and returns a new user token and user data.
🔓client.Users.requestPasswordReset(email, bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Sends user password reset request.
🔓client.Users.confirmPasswordReset(passwordResetToken, password, passwordConfirm, bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Confirms user password reset request.
🔓client.Users.requestVerification(email, bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Sends user verification email request.
🔓client.Users.confirmVerification(verificationToken, bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Confirms user email verification request.
🔐client.Users.requestEmailChange(newEmail, bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Sends an email change request to the authenticated user.
🔓client.Users.confirmEmailChange(emailChangeToken, password, bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Confirms user new email address.
🔐client.Users.getList(page = 1, perPage = 30, queryParams = {})	Returns paginated users list.
🔐client.Users.getFullList(batchSize = 100, queryParams = {})	Returns a list with all users batch fetched at once.
🔐client.Users.getOne(id, queryParams = {})	Returns single user by its id.
🔐client.Users.create(bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Creates a new user.
🔐client.Users.update(id, bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Updates an existing user by its id.
🔐client.Users.delete(id, bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Deletes an existing user by its id.
Realtime (for node environments you'll have to install an EventSource polyfill beforehand, eg. https://github.com/EventSource/eventsource)
🔓client.Realtime.subscribe(subscription, callback)	Inits the sse connection (if not already) and register the subscription.
🔓client.Realtime.unsubscribe(subscription = "")	Unsubscribe from a subscription (if empty - unsubscibe from all registered subscriptions).
Collections
🔐client.Collections.getList(page = 1, perPage = 30, queryParams = {})	Returns paginated collections list.
🔐client.Collections.getFullList(batchSize = 100, queryParams = {})	Returns a list with all collections batch fetched at once.
🔐client.Collections.getOne(id, queryParams = {})	Returns single collection by its id.
🔐client.Collections.create(bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Creates a new collection.
🔐client.Collections.update(id, bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Updates an existing collection by its id.
🔐client.Collections.delete(id, bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Deletes an existing collection by its id.
Records
🔓client.Records.getList(collectionIdOrName, page = 1, perPage = 30, queryParams = {})	Returns paginated records list.
🔓client.Records.getFullList(collectionIdOrName, batchSize = 100, queryParams = {})	Returns a list with all records batch fetched at once.
🔓client.Records.getOne(collectionIdOrName, id, queryParams = {})	Returns single record by its id.
🔓client.Records.create(collectionIdOrName, bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Creates a new record.
🔓client.Records.update(collectionIdOrName, id, bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Updates an existing record by its id.
🔓client.Records.delete(collectionIdOrName, id, bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Deletes an existing record by its id.
Logs
🔐client.Logs.getRequestsList(page = 1, perPage = 30, queryParams = {})	Returns paginated request logs list.
🔐client.Logs.getRequest(id, queryParams = {})	Returns a single request log by its id.
🔐client.Logs.getRequestsStats(queryParams = {})	Returns request logs statistics.
Settings
🔐client.Settings.getAll(queryParams = {})	Fetch all available app settings.
🔐client.Settings.update(bodyParams = {}, queryParams = {})	Bulk updates app settings.

Development

# run unit tests
npm test

# build and minify for production
npm run build