@dokuhero/expo-orm NPM

Expo ORM

SQLite ORM for Typescript works in Expo

Installation

Using npm:

npm i -S @dokuhero/expo-orm

or yarn:

yarn add @dokuhero/expo-orm

Usage

For the best practice, is by using a repository pattern. That you will have two directories called models and repository. A models directory will contains all models that represents all tables you have in your SQLite database and repository contains the repository class you'll use to interact with the models.

Here's the example of the folder structure:

+-- models
|   +-- index.ts
|   +-- Settings.ts
|   +-- User.ts
+-- repository
|   +-- index.ts

Create Model Classes

// models/Settings.ts

import { Column, Primary } from '@dokuhero/expo-orm'

export class Settings {
  @Primary()
  id: number = 0

  @Column('NVARCHAR')
  theme: string = ''
}

// models/User.ts

import { Column, Primary } from '@dokuhero/expo-orm'

export class User {
  @Primary()
  id: number = 0

  @Column('NVARCHAR')
  name: string = ''
}

Now export all your models in your models/index.ts. So everytime you add new model, you need to export it again trough models/index.ts. This is for convenience use when accessing models later on in repository.

// models/index.ts

export { User } from './User'
export { Settings } from './Settings'

Create Repository Class

// repository/index.ts

import * as models from '../models'
import { Db } from '@dokuhero/expo-orm'

// Now you have all your models types
type Models = typeof models

export class Repo {
  // Define database instance
  static db: Db<Models>

  // This action will create tables based on models
  // in your SQLite database if it's not exists yet.
  // Call this only once on your start-up project
  static async init() {
    this.db = await Db.init({
      database: 'name-of-database',
      entities: models
    })
  }

  // Now you're ready to interact with all models you have.
  // For example:

  static async getSettings(): Promise<models.Setting> {
    return await this.db.tables.Settings.selectOne()
  }

  static async updateSettings(value: Partial<models.Setting>) {
    const settings = (await this.getSettings()) || { id: 1 }
    await this.db.tables.Settings.upsert({ ...settings, ...value })
  }

  // And so on...
}