Realm by MongoDB is an offline-first mobile database: an alternative to SQLite and key-value stores
[!NOTE] Realm is now Atlas Device SDK - Learn More
Realm is a mobile database that runs directly inside phones, tablets or wearables. This project hosts the JavaScript & TypeScript implementation of Realm. Currently, we support React Native (JSC & Hermes on iOS & Android), Node.js and Electron (on Windows, MacOS and Linux).
The Atlas Device SDKs are a collection of language and platform specific SDKs, each with a suite of app development tools optimized for data access and persistence on mobile and edge devices. Use the SDKs to build data-driven mobile, edge, web, desktop, and IoT apps.
It might help to think of the Realm database as the persistance layer of the Atlas Device SDKs.
Please see the detailed instructions in our docs to use Atlas Device SDK for Node.js and Atlas Device SDK for React Native. Please notice that currently only Node.js version 18 or later is supported. For React Native users, we have a compatibility matrix showing which versions are supported.
The documentation for the Atlas Device SDK for React Native can be found at mongodb.com/docs/realm/sdk/react-native/. The documentation for the Atlas Device SDK for Node.js can be found at mongodb.com/docs/realm/sdk/node.
The API reference is located at docs.mongodb.com/realm-sdks/js/latest/.
If you are using React Native, please also take a look the README for @realm/react, which provides React hooks to make working with Realm easier.
TypeScript is a popular alternative to pure JavaScript as it provide static typing. Our TypeScript support consists of two parts
@realm/babel-plugin to transform TypeScript classes to Realm schemas. An example of a model class is:class Task extends Realm.Object<Task, "description"> {
_id = new Realm.BSON.ObjectId();
description!: string;
@index
isComplete = false;
static primaryKey = "_id";
constructor(realm, description: string) {
super(realm, { description });
}
}
The Atlas Device SDK for React Native provides persistence of objects and advanced queries for persisted objects. You can have easier integration with React Native by using @realm/react.
We have TypeScript templates to help you get started using Realm. Follow the links to your desired template and follow the instructions there to get up and running fast.
See CONTRIBUTING.md for more details!
Debug with Chrome in the Debug Menu.For instructions on building the SDK from the source, see the building.md file.
It's possible after installing and running Realm that one encounters the error Could not find the Realm binary. Here are are some tips to help with this.
Consult our COMPATIBILITY.md to ensure you are running compatible version of realm with the supported versions of node, react-native or expo.
Typically this error occurs when the pod dependencies haven't been updating. Try running the following command
npx pod-install
If that still doesn't help it's possible there are some caching errors with your build or your pod dependencies. The following commands can be used to safely clear these caches:
rm -rf ios/Pods
rm ios/Podfile.lock
rm -rf ~/Library/Developer/Xcode/DerivedData
Afterwards, reinstall pods and try again. If this still doesn't work, ensure that node_modules/realm/react-native/ios/realm-js-ios.xcframework exists and contains a binary for your architecture. If this is missing, try reinstalling the `realm`` npm package.
This can occur when installing realm and not performing a clean build. The following commands can be used to clear your cache:
cd android
./gradlew clean
Afterwards, try and rebuild for Android. If you are still encountering problems, ensure that node_moduels/realm/react-native/android/src/main/jniLibs contains a realm binary for your architecture. If this is missing, try reinstalling the realm npm package.
If you are using Expo, a common pitfall is not installing the expo-dev-client and using the Development Client specific scripts to build and run your React Native project in Expo. The Development Client allows you to create a local version of Expo Go which includes 3rd party libraries such as Realm. If you would like to use realm in an Expo project, the following steps can help.
expo-dev-client:
npm install expo-dev-client
npx expo run:ios
npx expo run:android
npx expo start --dev-client
When running npm install realm the realm binaries for the detected architecture are downloaded into node_modules/realm/prebuilds. If this directory is missing or empty, ensure that there weren't any network issues reported on installation.
Asynchronously submits install information to Realm.
Why are we doing this? In short, because it helps us build a better product
for you. None of the data personally identifies you, your employer or your
app, but it will help us understand what language you use, what Node.js
versions you target, etc. Having this info will help prioritizing our time,
adding new features and deprecating old features. Collecting an anonymized
application path & anonymized machine identifier is the only way for us to
count actual usage of the other metrics accurately. If we don’t have a way to
deduplicate the info reported, it will be useless, as a single developer
npm install-ing the same app 10 times would report 10 times more than another
developer that only installs once, making the data all but useless.
No one likes sharing data unless it’s necessary, we get it, and we’ve
debated adding this for a long long time. If you truly, absolutely
feel compelled to not send this data back to Realm, then you can set an env
variable named REALM_DISABLE_ANALYTICS.
Currently the following information is reported:
Moreover, we unconditionally write various constants to a file which we might use at runtime.
This project adheres to the MongoDB Code of Conduct. By participating, you are expected to uphold this code. Please report unacceptable behavior to community-conduct@mongodb.com.
Realm JS and Realm Core are published under the Apache License 2.0.
If you use Realm and are happy with it, all we ask is that you please consider sending out a tweet mentioning @realm to share your thoughts
And if you don't like it, please let us know what you would like improved, so we can fix it!
Made with contrib.rocks.
12.7.0 (2024-04-17)
[!NOTE] This version bumps the Realm file format to version 24. It is not possible to downgrade to earlier versions. Older files will automatically be upgraded to the new file format. Files created by Realm JavaScript prior to v6.0.0, might not be upgradeable. Only Realm Studio 15.0.0 or later will be able to open the new file format.
[!NOTE] This version communicates with Atlas Device Services through a different URL (https://services.cloud.mongodb.com). While we consider this an internal detail of the SDK, you might need to update rules in firewalls or other configuration that you've used to limit connections made by your app.
$P<i> in query string. (realm/realm-core#7033)@type argument. (realm/realm-core#7289)Decimal128 properties has been optimized so that the individual values will take up 0 bits (if all nulls), 32 bits, 64 bits or 128 bits depending on what is needed. ([realm/realm-core#6111]https://github.com/realm/realm-core/pull/6111))>, >=, <, <= operators and fixed behavior that a null string should be evaluated as less than everything, previously nulls were not matched. (realm/realm-core#3939)Realm.setLogLevel. (#6560)Mixed property with an index possibly returning the wrong result if values of different types happened to have the same StringIndex hash. (realm/realm-core#6407, since v10.5.0-beta.1)@count/@size is now supported for Mixed properties. (realm/realm-core#7280, since v10.0.0)indexed_property == NONE {x} which mistakenly matched on only x instead of not x. This only applies when an indexed property with equality (==, or IN) matches with NONE on a list of one item. If the constant list contained more than one value then it was working correctly. (realm/realm-java#7862, since v10.20.0)Bad server version errors and a new client reset. (realm/realm-core#7279, since v12.5.0)data and string are now strongly typed for comparisons and queries. This change is especially relevant when querying for a string constant on a Mixed property, as now only strings will be returned. If searching for data is desired, then that type must be specified by the constant. In RQL the new way to specify a binary constant is to use mixed = bin('xyz') or mixed = binary('xyz'). (realm/realm-core#6407)FAQs
Realm by MongoDB is an offline-first mobile database: an alternative to SQLite and key-value stores
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