# Description of Changes
We apparently have stale usage of `--project-path` in a ton of our
templates. This was renamed to `module-path` a while ago, but it looks
like that was only partially fixed in templates.
# API and ABI breaking changes
None
# Expected complexity level and risk
1
# Testing
I don't think it's _more_ broken 🤷
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Signed-off-by: Zeke Foppa <196249+bfops@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Zeke Foppa <bfops@users.noreply.github.com>
This pull request updates the template system to support richer metadata
and improves the interactive CLI experience for selecting templates. The
main changes are the addition of a `client_framework` field to template
metadata, a refactor of the templates JSON generation and parsing, and a
redesign of the interactive template selection flow to group templates
by language/framework and use fuzzy search for easier navigation.
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**Template Metadata and Serialization Improvements:**
* Added a new `client_framework` field to all template metadata files
(e.g., `.template.json`) and updated the Rust structs (`TemplateInfo`,
`TemplateDefinition`, etc.) to support this field, enabling more
descriptive and flexible template selection.
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* Refactored the templates JSON generation to use `serde` for
serialization, replacing manual string building, and ensured that
optional string fields serialize as empty strings when not present.
**CLI Interactive Template Selection Redesign:**
* Removed the previous "highlights" concept and reworked the interactive
selection to group templates by language/framework combinations, showing
counts and using fuzzy search for easier filtering.
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* Updated the selection menus to allow users to pick a
language/framework group, then choose from multiple templates if
available, or opt to clone from GitHub or select "None."
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* Improved language label formatting for better user experience in the
CLI prompt.
**Codebase Cleanup and API Changes:**
* Removed unused highlight-related structs and logic from the CLI,
simplifying the template fetching API to return only templates.
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* Updated all template selection logic to use the new API and data
structures.
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These changes make template selection more intuitive and scalable as
more templates and frameworks are added.
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Co-authored-by: clockwork-labs-bot <clockwork-labs-bot@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Zeke Foppa <bfops@users.noreply.github.com>
## Summary
Multiple fixes and improvements to `spacetime dev`, `spacetime publish`,
`spacetime init`, and templates:
### CLI fixes
- **Fix `spacetime dev` watch path and .env.local handling** for
templates with a `spacetimedb/` subdirectory
- **Validate package manager availability** before installing
dependencies — re-prompts if the selected PM isn't on PATH
- **Remove JS/TS beta warning** from `spacetime publish`
- **Remove unstable warning** from `spacetime init`
- **Remove unused `spacetime energy` command** (can be re-added later
when properly implemented)
- **Fix `tsc` detection on Windows** — `set_extension(".cmd")` produced
`tsc..cmd` (double dot); fixed to `set_extension("cmd")`
- **Add `typescript` as devDependency** to all server template
`spacetimedb/package.json` files so `tsc` is available during build
- **Strip `\?\` extended-length path prefix** from user-facing output in
both `dev` and `publish` commands (produced by `fs::canonicalize()` on
Windows)
- **Fix publish reporting success when user declines** non-local server
prompt — changed `return Ok(())` to `bail!()` consistent with other
abort cases
- **Forward stdin to client process** in `spacetime dev` so interactive
CLI templates work
### Template fixes
- **Fix Angular template environment variables** — Angular's esbuild
builder doesn't support `import.meta.env`, so we use a dev script to
generate `environment.local.ts` with Angular's native `fileReplacements`
pattern
- **Fix TanStack Start template** — rename `createRouter` to `getRouter`
(v1.121+ breaking change), upgrade to React 19, and add
`@vitejs/plugin-react` for automatic JSX runtime support
- **Fix `moduleResolution` in remix-ts and nextjs-ts** server tsconfigs
— change from `"node"` to `"bundler"` to support subpath exports like
`spacetimedb/server`
- **Fix browser-ts template** — convert from static HTML + IIFE bundle
to standard Vite dev server app so it works with `spacetime dev` and
reads env vars from `.env.local`
- **Add `deno` as devDependency** to deno-ts template (matches how
bun-ts includes bun)
- **Convert basic-ts from empty web app to CLI app** matching basic-rs —
connect, subscribe to person table, print on insert
## Test plan
- [x] `cargo test -p spacetimedb-cli` — all 133 tests pass
- [ ] `spacetime dev --template angular-ts` — verify Angular app
connects with correct database name
- [ ] `spacetime dev --template react-ts` — verify React template still
works
- [ ] `spacetime dev --template tanstack-ts` — verify TanStack Start
template loads without errors
- [ ] `spacetime dev --template remix-ts` — verify Remix template builds
and runs
- [ ] `spacetime dev --template nextjs-ts` — verify Next.js template
still works
- [ ] `spacetime dev --template browser-ts` — verify Vite dev server
starts and app connects
- [ ] `spacetime dev --template bun-ts` — verify Bun CLI template runs
interactively
- [ ] `spacetime dev --template basic-ts` — verify CLI connects and
prints on insert
- [ ] Verify no `\?\` prefix in any displayed paths on Windows
- [ ] Verify no `tsc not found` warning when building server modules
- [ ] Select unavailable package manager at init prompt — verify
re-prompt
- [ ] Decline non-local server prompt — verify clean error instead of
"Published successfully!"
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Co-authored-by: Piotr Sarnacki <drogus@gmail.com>
Co-authored-by: John Detter <4099508+jdetter@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: clockwork-labs-bot <bot@clockworklabs.com>
# Description of Changes
`spacetime build` now attempts to run tsc for typescript modules, and
will emit a warning if it's not present. This PR makes it so our CLI
stops emitting a warning for our templates.
# Expected complexity level and risk
1
# Testing
- [x] Verified that typescript gets properly installed.
# Description of Changes
This adds some logging utilities, that will probably be helpful for
debugging issues. `stdbLogger` can now accept lazy messages. If you call
`setGlobalLogLevel`, that will set a log level globally. It is set to
`info` by default, but when troubleshooting, we can ask people to run
`setGlobalLogLevel('trace')` and share more detailed logs.
In this PR, it adds a new new logs at the `trace` level:
- All outgoing messages to the server
- All incoming messages from the server
- After handling a server message, we log the number of triggered row
callbacks
There are also some formatting niceties to truncate large arrays and
redact fields that look like credentials.
We are also using `safe-stable-stringify` to handle some cases that
would be errors in `JSON.stringify`.
# API and ABI breaking changes
This adds the `setGlobalLogLevel` function, which is useful for
debugging.
# Expected complexity level and risk
1.5 - the only real risk here is that
# Testing
This has some tests of formatting in `logger.test.ts`.
# Description of Changes
All types are now defined and exported in `module_bindings/types.ts`,
meanings there's only one module you need to import from to access
types.
# Expected complexity level and risk
2
# Testing
n/a, no change in behavior.
# Description of Changes
This fixes a couple issues:
- We are now using the `SendDroppedRows` flag for unsubscribe messages.
- We parse reducer errors as strings now when throwing errors.
- `useTable` was not doing client-side filtering correctly for object
types (Timestamp, ConnectionId, Identity)
- `useTable` was not always recomputing snapshots when it needed to,
because it couldn't distinguish between two events if they were caused
by reducers called by other connections (or two subscription applied
events). All events how have a client-generated id attached, so we can
tell if there was actually a new event processed.
Once we have per-query storage, we can purge the client-side filtering
code.
This also adds some tests to cover these cases, and includes a bit of
refactoring.
Another change added here is to use `SenderError` in the typescript SDK
for errors that were returned by reducers (which throw `SenderError` in
typescript modules).
# Expected complexity level and risk
1
# Testing
This has some new tests added.
Much of the `useTable` logic was tested manually.
# Description of Changes
This PR fixes a bunch of issues and brings some improvements related to
`spacetime.json` config file
# API and ABI breaking changes
-
# Expected complexity level and risk
3
This PR is changing several places that are called during many of the
CLI commands.
# Testing
- [x] Added some automated tests
- [ ] Tested locally
Zeke Foppa