# Description of Changes
Major documentation overhaul focusing on tables, column types, and
indexes.
**Quickstart Guides:**
- Updated React, TypeScript, Rust, and C# quickstarts with table/reducer
examples
- Fixed CLI syntax (positional `--database` argument)
- Improved template consistency across languages
**Tables Documentation:**
- Added "Why Tables" section explaining table-oriented design philosophy
(tables as fundamental unit, system tables, data-oriented design
principles)
- Added "Physical and Logical Independence" section explaining how
subscription queries use the relational model independently of physical
storage
- Added brief sections linking to related pages (Visibility,
Constraints, Schedule Tables)
- Renamed "Scheduled Tables" to "Schedule Tables" throughout (tables
store schedules; reducers are scheduled)
**Column Types:**
- Split into dedicated page with unified type reference table
- Added "Representing Collections" section (Vec/Array vs table
tradeoffs)
- Added "Binary Data and Files" section for Vec<u8> storage patterns
- Added "Type Performance" section (smaller types, fixed-size types,
column ordering for alignment)
- Added complete example struct demonstrating all type categories
- Renamed "Structured" category to "Composite"
**Indexes:**
- Complete rewrite with textbook-style documentation
- Added "When to Use Indexes" guidance
- Documented single-column and multi-column index syntax (field-level
and table-level)
- Comprehensive range query examples with correct TypeScript `Range`
class syntax
- Explained multi-column index prefix matching semantics
- Added index-accelerated deletion examples
- Included index design guidelines
**Styling:**
- Added CSS for table border radius and row separators
- Created Check component for green checkmarks in tables
# API and ABI breaking changes
None. Documentation only.
# Expected complexity level and risk
1 - Documentation changes only, no code changes.
# Testing
- [ ] Verify docs build without errors
- [ ] Review rendered pages for formatting issues
- [ ] Confirm code examples are syntactically correct
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# Description of Changes
I believe that local users do not have API tokens for OpenAI, so the
existing hint was not helpful. Apparently the correct path is to post
`/update-llm-benchmark` on the PR and let the CI take care of it.
# API and ABI breaking changes
None
# Expected complexity level and risk
1
# Testing
None
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# Description of Changes
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Fix LLM benachmarks in rust since they used Result instead of ResultRow
in the request to the LLM making it always fail.
1. see the answer's file there it is ResultRow.
2. Result is a keyword so it will always fail
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1
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# Description of Changes
Update the path of dirName to match the correct path.
# API and ABI breaking changes
None.
# Expected complexity level and risk
0.0001
# Testing
Tested locally by running Docusaurus
# Description of Changes
- Add an "Authentication" section under "Core concepts"
- Add an introduction about how and explanations about common topics
- Move claims usage out of SpacetimeAuth docs
- Update SpacetimeAuth docs to the new version of the dashboard
# API and ABI breaking changes
None.
# Expected complexity level and risk
2
# Testing
Tested locally using Docusaurus
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# Description of Changes
- Made spacetime dev <database> a positional argument and deprecated
--database
- Fixed double connection in React SDK
- Added a more descriptive error message to unresolved table name.
# API and ABI breaking changes
Deprecates `--database`. Still works, but it prints with a warning.
# Expected complexity level and risk
2
# Testing
- [x] I have tested that the double render fix works in React
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# Description of Changes
This PR does several small things:
1. It removes the explicit `h1` tags on every page, and either uses the
side bar title directly, or puts it in the frontmatter
2. It merges what are currently called quickstarts into a single Chat
App Tutorial
3. It creates new quickstarts which just use `spacetime dev --template`
to get you up and running quickly
4. It adds a "The Zen of SpacetimeDB" page much like the Zen of Python
which goes over the 5 key principles of SpacetimeDB
5. It reorders all Tabs groups so that the ordering is `TypeScript`,
`C#`, `Rust`, `Unreal`, `C++`, `Blueprints` (order of decreasing
popularity).
6. It improves the sidebar navigation by having categories act as
overview pages, and also fixes the breadcrumbs
7. It fixes various small typos and issues
8. Closes#3610 and adds cursor rules files generally
9. It fixes general styling on the docs page by bring it inline with the
UI design:
Old:
<img width="1678" height="958" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f36efee6-b81a-4463-a179-da68b3a7152e"
/>
New:
<img width="1678" height="957" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/f430f77d-0663-47f2-9727-45cbfe10e4c7"
/>
https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/adc5a78a-ada8-45b5-8078-a45cb81477a3
# API and ABI breaking changes
This PR does NOT change any old links. It does add new pages though.
# Expected complexity level and risk
3 - it's a large change. I manually tested the TypeScript Chat App
Tutorial but I have not gone through the Rust and C# quickstarts.
However, we have testing on the quickstarts and this is text only so can
be carefully reviewed.
# Testing
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- [x] Ran through each step of the Chat App TypeScript tutorial to
ensure it is working
- [x] Ran and tested the styles and the functionality of the side bar
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# Description of Changes
Updated the link to target SpacetimeDB repository instead of archived
blackholio repository.
Update the repository structure in the README.md to match the current
one (also sort it alphabetically).
# API and ABI breaking changes
NA
# Expected complexity level and risk
1
# Testing
Visit https://spacetimedb.com/docs/unreal/. this link is already used a
bit below for the text "Blackhol.io"
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# Description of Changes
The syntax is not supported like shows and must be included in the
`table` macro.
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# API and ABI breaking changes
None.
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# Expected complexity level and risk
0 No runtime change
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# Description of Changes
We would like to move all of the templates to a central directory
# API and ABI breaking changes
None
# Expected complexity level and risk
2
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# Description of Changes
Introduce a new **LLM benchmarking app** and supporting code.
* **CLI:** `llm` with subcommands `run`, `routes list`, `diff`,
`ci-check`.
* **Runner:** executes globally numbered tasks; filters by `--lang`,
`--categories`, `--tasks`, `--providers`, `--models`.
* **Providers/clients:** route layer (`provider:model`) with HTTP LLM
Vendor clients; env-driven keys/base URLs.
* **Evaluation:** deterministic scorers (hash/equality, JSON
shape/count, light schema/reducer parity) with clear failure messages.
* **Results:** stable JSON schema; single-file HTML viewer to
inspect/filter/export CSV.
* **Build & guards:** build script for compile-time setup;
* **Docs:** `DEVELOP.md` includes `cargo llm …` usage.
This PR is the initial addition of the app and its modules (runner,
config, routes, prompt/segmentation, scorers, schema/types,
defaults/constants/paths/hashing/combine, publishers, spacetime guard,
HTML stats viewer).
### How it works
1. **Pick what to run**
* Choose tasks (`--tasks 0,7,12`), or a language (`--lang rust|csharp`),
or categories (`--categories basics,schema`).
* Optionally limit vendors/models (`--providers …`, `--models …`).
2. **Resolve routes**
* Read env (API keys + base URLs) and build the active set (e.g.,
`openai:gpt-5`).
3. **Build context**
* Start Spacetime
* Publish golden answer modules
* Prepare prompts and send to LLM model
* Attempt to publish LLM module
4. **Execute calls**
* Run the selected tasks within each test against selected models and
languages.
5. **Score outputs**
* Apply deterministic scorers (hash/equality, JSON shape/count, simple
schema/reducer checks).
* Record the score and any short failure reason.
6. **Update results file**
* Write/update the single results JSON with task/route outcomes,
timings, and summaries.
# API and ABI breaking changes
None. New application and modules; no existing public APIs/ABIs altered.
# Expected complexity level and risk
**4/5.** New CLI, routing, evaluation, and artifact format.
* External model APIs may rate-limit/timeout; concurrency tunable via
`LLM_BENCH_CONCURRENCY` / `LLM_BENCH_ROUTE_CONCURRENCY`.
# Testing
I ran the full test matrix and generated results for every task against
every vendor, model, and language (rust + C#). I also tested the CI
check locally using [act](https://github.com/nektos/act).
**Please verify**
* [ ] `llm run --tasks 0,1,2` (explicit `run`)
* [ ] `llm run --lang rust --categories basics` (filters)
* [ ] `llm run --categories basics,schema` (multiple categories)
* [ ] `llm run --lang csharp` (language switch)
* [ ] `llm run --providers openai,anthropic --models "openai:gpt-5
anthropic:claude-sonnet-4-5"` (provider/model limits)
* [ ] `llm run --hash-only` (dry integrity)
* [ ] `llm run --goldens-only` (test goldens only)
* [ ] `llm run --force` (skip hash check)
* [ ] `llm ci-check`
* [ ] Stats viewer loads the JSON; filtering and CSV export work
* [ ] CI works as intended
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# Description of Changes
Closes#3659
# API and ABI breaking changes
Remove route and alter the semantics of the `call` route on both server
and `cli`
# Expected complexity level and risk
1
# Testing
- [x] Publish module with `procedures` and observe calling the `cli` the
result is print.
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# Description of Changes
Closes: #3895
- Added third tier expanding folder
- Merged most into intro + core concepts
- Collapsed modules + database into one
- Moved several documents to how-to to streamline the core concepts
- Added warning to RLS to use views
- refactored all links
- Moved How To and References into Developer Resources
- Fixed TypeScript View code
Sample: (Getting Started will start expanded due to being the initial
page)
<img width="293" height="746" alt="image"
src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/6abc3a0d-1ae2-4886-bda7-11f5565afecf"
/>
# API and ABI breaking changes
N/A
# Expected complexity level and risk
1
# Testing
- [X] Updated the quickstarts.py and generate-cli tooling
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# Description of Changes
With the refactor docs I had left the original module folder and
mistakenly didn't remove it as requested as per Tyler's comment:
https://github.com/clockworklabs/SpacetimeDB/pull/3877#pullrequestreview-3585291570:
> Also please remove the "old files" before merging.
# API and ABI breaking changes
N/A
# Expected complexity level and risk
1
# Testing
Removal of documents there is no test to run
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# Description of Changes
Add back the instructions for regenerating CLI docs, which were removed
in https://github.com/clockworklabs/SpacetimeDB/pull/3343. I also made a
script for it.
This also fixes the CI checking this file, which was silently broken in
the same PR.
I have **not** verified that this works in Git Bash in Windows.
# API and ABI breaking changes
None
# Expected complexity level and risk
1
# Testing
- [x] CI passes
- [x] CI fails if I change the CLI reference
- [x] CLI reference looks visually reasonable on a local `pnpm dev`
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# Description of Changes
The `.png` logo image has been replaced by a `.svg` and needed to be
updated.
# API and ABI breaking changes
Not applicable
# Expected complexity level and risk
0.000001
# Testing
Run `pnpm dev` and check that the logo is correctly displayed in the top
left corner
# Description of Changes
This makes it possible to insert new pages between existing pages
without renaming the existing pages.
I also added a section to docs/README.md with procedure for how to name
new pages, which I'll paste here:
### Adding new pages
All of our directory and file names are prefixed with a five-digit
number which determines how they're sorted.
We started with the hundreds place as the smallest significant digit, to
allow using the tens and ones places to add new pages between.
When adding a new page in between two existing pages, choose a number
which:
- Doesn't use any more significant figures than it needs to.
- Is approximately halfway between the previous and next page.
For example, if you want to add a new page between `00300-foo` and
`00400-bar`, name it `00350-baz`. To add a new page between `00350-baz`
and `00400-bar`, prefer `00370-quux` or `00380-quux`, rather than
`00375-quux`, to avoid populating the ones place.
To add a new page after all previous pages, use the smallest multiple of
100 larger than all other pages. For example, if the highest-numbered
existing page is `01350-abc`, create `01400-def`.
# API and ABI breaking changes
N/a
# Expected complexity level and risk
1 - @JulienLavocat said this wouldn't break anything.
# Testing
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# Description of Changes
Closes: #3781
- Added and tested procedure docs for Unreal C++ & Unreal Blueprint
- Fixed a small issue with the blueprint accessors for the event status
- Fixed a bug in the C# procedure docs
# API and ABI breaking changes
N/A
# Expected complexity level and risk
1
# Testing
I built a new local test framework to do another clean end to end test
of procedures with Unreal to properly test the Blueprint work as well.
- [x] Built the Rust server alongside a new Unreal client and tested
each procedure/callback in C++ and Blueprint
- [x] Reviewed the docs locally
# Description of Changes
- Update docs nav height to 56px
## Screenshots:
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src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/df070fb2-f3c8-4f17-ae58-6a6aa72c8033"
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# Description of Changes
This removes all usages of `pathname:///` and replaces them with
`https://spacetimedb.com/`. `pathname:///` was resolving to `/docs` in
some cases and was not verified by our link checker. Note that this
means these links will NOT work in staging.
This is a temporary fix. We should find a way to be able to link out to
the rest of the site without hardcoding the hostname in the future.
# API and ABI breaking changes
None
# Expected complexity level and risk
1
# Testing
- I tested that the links work locally (but obviously they link to the
production site).
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# Description of Changes
In the spirit of our planned move to concept-based documentation rather
than language-based documentation,
I've chosen to add a quick section to the overview, and then a new page
for documentation about procedures. I have not updated any tutorials or
reference pages.
# API and ABI breaking changes
N/a - docs
# Expected complexity level and risk
1 - docs
# Testing
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# Description of Changes
Somehow (apparently after #3494) we wound up with a bunch of duplicate
folders in our repo, both the old title-case names and the new
lower-case names. All of the remaining files in the title-case
directories have their last change in #3343, well before #3494, so I
don't believe we're losing any intermediate changes by deleting them.
I'm not sure how this happened, but it seems to be an easy fix.
# API and ABI breaking changes
N/a
# Expected complexity level and risk
2 - some small possibility that I accidentally deleted an intentional
change that got borked by a merge conflict or something. I don't think I
did, tho, based on the age of the git blame on the files deleted here.
# Testing
None
# Description of Changes
This PR is the first in a series of PRs which are an effort the
reorganize the docs and make it easier for people to get started using
SpacetimeDB.
This PR:
1. Renames all folders to be `kebab-case`. This is because `docIds` are
set based on folder and file names, and there is no way to override that
within a file (all you can change with `id: my-id` is the last component
of the id. Because we want to be able to access docs in react components
we need stable predictable ids.
- This also necessitates setting up a few `_category_.json` files so
that the categories do not show up as kebab case in the sidebar.
2. Adds a few React components with images so it's clearer on how to get
started
3. Reorganizes the quickstarts to be at the top of the side bar and
simplifies the server and client into a single document named for the
language
4. Sets up redirections so the old links to the old documents now point
to the new documents
5. Copies the entirety of `typography.css` from the website into this
repo for the purpose of keeping them identical
6. Makes minor fixes and improvements to the contents of the docs
In a future PR, I intend to:
1. Add a tutorial section to the docs which will include two tutorials:
Blackholio and Chat
2. Turn the chat quickstart documents into the Chat tutorial and
consolidate it into a single file with different language switchers (if
this is feasible)
3. Create a new quickstart section, which has a quickstart guide for
each platform that we support so far, namely:
- Vanilla TypeScript
- Vanilla JavaScript
- Vanilla Rust
- Vanilla C#
- React
- Unity
- Unreal
4. Update the quickstart guides to do the following (in the future I
will add more platforms with this scheme):
- Use `spacetime dev --template <framework-template>` to create a new
project for the given framework
- Insert data into the database
- Add a new `reducer` to the template
- Add a new `table` to the template
- Add a new `view` to the template
- Call the reducer from the client
- Subscribe to the `view` from the template
5. Break up the current per language module reference files into files
about SpacetimeDB concepts with a `TabGroup` for each language, namely:
- Modules
- Tables
- Reducers
- Procedures
- Code generation
- DbConnection (and the SDK API)
- Auth
- etc.
The idea being that we should explain our platform by concept, not by
language. This will also allow us to reuse a lot of prose that is
repeated in the different language documents.
# API and ABI breaking changes
None
# Expected complexity level and risk
1
# Testing
- [x] Tested the documents locally to ensure that they render properly
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# Description of Changes
- Update docs nav items font weight to 600
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# Description of Changes
This PR modifies the `--delete-data` flag on `spacetime publish` and
adds the `--delete-data` flag on `spacetime dev`.
In particular instead of `--delete-data` being a boolean, it is now a an
enum:
- `always` -> corresponds to the old value of `true`
- `never` -> corresponds to the old value of `false`
- `on-conflict` -> clears the database, but only if publishing would
have required a manual migration
This flag does NOT change any behavior about prompting users to confirm
if they want to delete the data. Users will still be prompted to confirm
UNLESS they pass the separate `--yes` flag.
`spacetime dev` gets the same `--delete-data` flag. The default value of
`never` is equivalent to the existing behavior. `spacetime dev`
continues to publish with `--yes` just as before. This behavior is
unchanged.
# API and ABI breaking changes
Adds the flags specified above. This is NOT a breaking change to the
CLI. Passing `--delete-data` is the equivalent of
`--delete-data=always`.
This IS technically a breaking change to the `pre_publish` route. As far
as I'm aware this is *only* used by our CLI however.
> IMPORTANT SIDE NOTE: I would argue that `--break-clients` should
really be renamed to `--yes-break-clients` because it actually behaves
like the `--yes` force flag, but only for a subset of the user prompts.
I have not made this change because it would be a breaking change, but
if the reviewers agree, I will make this change.
# Expected complexity level and risk
2, Very small change, but if we get it wrong users could accidentally
lose data. I would ask reviewers to think about ways that users might
accidentally pass `--delete-data --yes`.
# Testing
- [ ] I have not yet tested manually.
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Co-authored-by: John Detter <4099508+jdetter@users.noreply.github.com>
# Description of Changes
This PR is a very large change to the workings of the TypeScript SDK and
as such requires a higher bar of testing than other PRs. However, it
does several important things:
1. Unifies the API of the server and client so they not only have the
same API, but they actually implement it with the same TypeScript types.
This fixes several inconsistencies between them and fixes several small
bugs as well.
2. Closes https://github.com/clockworklabs/SpacetimeDB/issues/3365
3. Closes https://github.com/clockworklabs/SpacetimeDB/issues/3431
4. Closes https://github.com/clockworklabs/SpacetimeDB/issues/3435
5. Subsumes the work done in
https://github.com/clockworklabs/SpacetimeDB/pull/3447
6. Derives all type information on the client from a single
`RemoteModule` type which vastly cleans up the correctness of type
checking on the client and helped me to find several small bugs
It accomplishes this by changing code generation of TypeScript on the
client to code generation approximately what a developer would manually
write in their module. The ultimate goal would be to allow the developer
to use the types and functions that they define on in their module
directly on the client without needing to do any code generation at all,
provided they are using TypeScript on the server and client.
https://github.com/clockworklabs/SpacetimeDB/issues/3365 is resolved by
`.build()`ing the `DbConnection` inside a React `useEffect` rather than
doing it directly in line with the render of the provider. In order to
do that we needed to not expose the `DbConnection` directly to
developers by returning a different type from `useSpacetimeDB`.
`useSpacetimeDB` now returns a `ConnectionState` object which is stored
as React state and updates when any of the fields change. This change
also resolves https://github.com/clockworklabs/SpacetimeDB/issues/3431.
https://github.com/clockworklabs/SpacetimeDB/issues/3435 was the issue
that initially lead me down the rabbit hole of unifying the server and
the client because it was nearly impossible to track down all the
various type functions and how they connect to the values that we code
generate on the server. After several hours of attempting this, I
decided to clean up the types a bit to be more uniform.
Implementing the unification between the client and the server also
necessitated fully implemented parts of the API that were fully
implemented on the server, but were broken or missing on the client.
# API and ABI breaking changes
[Unification] -> Means that this is breaking behavior for the client
SDK, but that the new behavior is identical to the server's existing
behavior
## Breaking changes:
- Table accessor names and index accessor names are converted to
camelCase on the `ctx`, so `ctx.db.foo_bar` is now `ctx.db.fooBar`
- [Unification] On the client `my_table.iter()` returns
`IterableIterator` instead of an `Array`
- [Unification] `module_bindings` now export `TypeBuilder`s for all
types instead of a `type MyType` and object `MyType`, so instead of
using `MyType` as a type directly, you need to infer the type `MyType`
-> `Infer<typeof MyType>`.
- [Unification] We no longer generate and export `MyTypeVariants` for
sum types (these are now accessed by `Infer<typeof
MyType.variants.myVariant>`)
- [Unification] `MyType.getTypeScriptAlgebraicType()` has been replaced
with `MyType.algebraicType`
- `useSpacetimeDB()` no longer takes type parameters
- `useTable()` now takes a `TableDef` parameter and type params are
inferred
- `useTable()` now just returns an `Array` directly instead of a object
with `{ rows }`
- [Unification] `ctx.reducers.createPlayer(argA, argB)` ->
`ctx.reducers.createPlayer({ argA, argB })`
- [Unification] `ctx.reducers.onCreatePlayer(ctx, argA, argB)` ->
`ctx.reducers.onCreatePlayer(ctx, { argA, argB })`
- [Unification] `ctx.reducers.removeOnCreatePlayer(ctx, argA, argB)` ->
`ctx.reducers.removeOnCreatePlayer(ctx, { argA, argB })`
- [Unification] `myTable.count(): number` -> `myTable.count(): bigint`
## Additive changes:
- `Infer<>` now also does `InferTypeOfRow<>` if applicable
- Added a `useReducer()` React hook
- `module_bindings` now exports a `tables` object with references to all
the `TableDef`s
- `module_bindings` now exports a `reducers` object with references to
all the `ReducerDef`s
- Added a new `MyType.create('MyVariant', ...)` function in addition to
the `MyType.MyVariant(...)` constructors (this is private)
## Notable things that did not change:
- `MyType.serialize(writer: BinaryWriter, value: Infer<typeof MyType>)`
and `MyType.deserialize(reader: BinaryReader): Infer<typeof MyType>` are
still supported exactly as before.
- The `MyType.MyVariant(...)` constructor function on sum types is still
present, but implemented with the private `MyType.create('MyVariant',
...)`. We could choose to move away from this API later if we didn't
like the variants polluting the namespace
# Expected complexity level and risk
4 - This is a deep reaching an complex change for the SDK. For the
server, it is much less deep reaching since it reuses much of the same
machinery, although it does require thorough testing there as some of
the code was modified.
This change is fully localized to TypeScript and does not touch the host
(or other languages) at all, and therefore only impacts a beta aspect of
SpacetimeDB.
# Testing
<!-- Describe any testing you've done, and any testing you'd like your
reviewers to do,
so that you're confident that all the changes work as expected! -->
- [ ] Added regression test for
https://github.com/clockworklabs/SpacetimeDB/issues/3435
- [x] Manually tested `test-app` and `test-react-router-app`
- [ ] Add test cases for camelCase-ing
---------
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Co-authored-by: Noa <coolreader18@gmail.com>
# Description of Changes
Includes Rust, C#, and TypeScript.
# API and ABI breaking changes
None
# Expected complexity level and risk
1
# Testing
Just docs.
# Description of Changes
Following discussions about having our Inkeep's API key being public, I
added a comment to all the places where we use it saying that this is OK
and a link to the documentation.
As per Inkeep's documentation:
> When you embed your AI assistant in websites where the user is not
authenticated, like in your public docs, help center, or marketing site,
the web browser is considered a "public client". Since many of these
clients often don't have a backend, the most practical way to use the AI
assistant is for UI components to talk directly to the Inkeep service.
While it is up to your company's own policies and best practices, in
these scenarios, the Inkeep API key is generally ok to be included in
the source code of your web page that is exposed in the browser. This is
similar to how [Algolia's search
service](https://support.algolia.com/hc/en-us/articles/18966776061329-Can-the-search-API-key-be-public)
or [Sentry's error
logging](https://forum.sentry.io/t/how-does-sentry-prevent-spammers/8188)
works.
https://docs.inkeep.com/cloud/ui-components/public-api-keys#public-clients
# API and ABI breaking changes
None
# Expected complexity level and risk
1
# Testing
Ran the docs locally to ensure that the comment isn't visible on the
markdown pages
# Description of Changes
Inkeep's API key for the search bar is the staging one instead of
production, therefore requests made are failing due to an incorrect
referrer.
I've fixed this on `docs/release` quickly after we migrated the new docs
but haven't made a PR to add it to master, due to this the change was
lost on `docs/release` in the last docs release.
I just cherry-picked the commit that I had on my local branch
# API and ABI breaking changes
None.
# Expected complexity level and risk
1
# Testing
Cherry-pick of a commit that was already deployed
# Description of Changes
The GitHub edit links were disabled in the new docs, this reenables
them.
# API and ABI breaking changes
None
# Expected complexity level and risk
1
# Testing
<!-- Describe any testing you've done, and any testing you'd like your
reviewers to do,
so that you're confident that all the changes work as expected! -->
- [x] Tested locally that this works.
# Description of Changes
This PR implements a new command for the CLI: `spacetime dev`. If run
from outside of a project directory, it will call `init` in interactive
mode to allow user to create a project. If run from a project directory,
it will ask for a module to conect to and it will:
* subscribe to logs
* observe files in the `spacetimedb` directory and automatically publish
to SpacetimeDB
One caveat is that instead of reusing the `logs` code I did some
repetition cause currently the logs code acquires a lock that lives
through await points. It is fixable, but due to limited time I decided
to go with a bit of code duplication. It shouldn't be very hard to fix
later, though.
---------
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Signed-off-by: John Detter <4099508+jdetter@users.noreply.github.com>
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# Description of Changes
<!-- Please describe your change, mention any related tickets, and so on
here. -->
- Fixes an issue in the new TypeScript module quickstart which would
cause users to encounter an error.
# API and ABI breaking changes
<!-- If this is an API or ABI breaking change, please apply the
corresponding GitHub label. -->
None
# Expected complexity level and risk
1
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to 5,
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If you answered more than a 2, explain what is complex about the PR,
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# Testing
<!-- Describe any testing you've done, and any testing you'd like your
reviewers to do,
so that you're confident that all the changes work as expected! -->
- [x] I did the quickstart from start to finish and it works now without
hitting any errors
Manual test output:
```
boppy@geralt MINGW64 ~/clockwork/SpacetimeDB/quickstart-chat (jdetter/fix-typescript-quickstart)
$ spacetime publish --project-path spacetimedb quickstart-chat
Build finished successfully.
Uploading to local => http://127.0.0.1:3000
Checking for breaking changes...
Publishing module...
JavaScript / TypeScript support is currently in BETA.
There may be bugs. Please file issues if you encounter any.
<https://github.com/clockworklabs/SpacetimeDB/issues/new>
Created new database with name: quickstart-chat, identity: c200a4abaa304575600961ee0a39210a536bcd9d52d14580ce56dd51627013f5
boppy@geralt MINGW64 ~/clockwork/SpacetimeDB/quickstart-chat (jdetter/fix-typescript-quickstart)
$ spacetime call quickstart-chat send_message "Hello, World!"
WARNING: This command is UNSTABLE and subject to breaking changes.
boppy@geralt MINGW64 ~/clockwork/SpacetimeDB/quickstart-chat (jdetter/fix-typescript-quickstart)
$ spacetime logs quickstart-chat
2025-10-30T15:50:23.882048Z INFO: Creating table `message`
2025-10-30T15:50:23.882191Z INFO: Creating table `user`
2025-10-30T15:50:23.882713Z INFO: Invoking `init` reducer
2025-10-30T15:50:23.883599Z INFO: Database initialized
2025-10-30T15:50:31.461395Z INFO: send_message spacetimedb_module:3640: User c20093cd8df79879ae6d2b058650ca5112d6bb11334b5003f443cc0776da3d15: Hello, World!
boppy@geralt MINGW64 ~/clockwork/SpacetimeDB/quickstart-chat (jdetter/fix-typescript-quickstart)
$ spacetime sql quickstart-chat "SELECT * FROM message"
WARNING: This command is UNSTABLE and subject to breaking changes.
sender | sent | text
--------------------------------------------------------------------+----------------------------------+-----------------
0xc20093cd8df79879ae6d2b058650ca5112d6bb11334b5003f443cc0776da3d15 | 2025-10-30T15:50:31.460991+00:00 | "Hello, World!"
```
This is a draft of the new functionality for `spacetime init`. In order
to run it with built-in templates you have to set the path to the config
file:
```
export SPACETIMEDB_CLI_TEMPLATES_FILE=crates/cli/.init-templates.json
```
In the future it will fetch the list from GH.
A few notes:
* the previous functionality of `spacetime init` does not work at the
moment
* the code needs a bit more cleanup and tests before merging
* there is a bit of a mix in how we generate empty server and client
projects. For Rust we use the existing way of generating. For TypeScript
we clone an empty project from the repo. I wanted to play with both ways
of doing things, and I'm still not sure which is better. Generation in
Rust means that the generated code will match the CLI version and not
necessarily whatever is in Git. On the other hand, for the builtin
templates we will be fetching the newest version from GH, which I guess
might also not what we want, ie. we probably want only stable templates.
More discussion is needed here
* we use `spacetimedb` directory for the server files
* I don't particularly like the inability to disable interactive mode
easily. We discussed disabling it by default if all of the required
arguments are passed, but I don't think it's feature proof. For example,
if someone relies on a non-interactive mode, and we add a new required
argument, instead of printing a message `missing --foo`, we will
automatically launch interactive mode, which is harder to debug. That's
why I think I'd prefer to implement `--non-interactive` argument
* it's kind of hard to keep the legacy behaviour. If you don't pass any
arguments, we go into interactive mode. In the legacy version, we would
print required arguments. If someone passes `--lang` or `--project-path`
explicitly, I guess we could run the legacy workflow, but not sure if
it's worth it, as the command was marked as unstable anyway
* the project path defaults to the project name, but I think we should
probably replace change whitespaces to dashes, or at least ask for the
project path with the project name being the default (or both)
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Signed-off-by: John Detter <4099508+jdetter@users.noreply.github.com>
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# Description of Changes
- Expanded on the Unreal tutorial to create the Blueprint version,
~~this uses :::server-cpp and :::server-blueprint which might not work
yet when deploying~~ with using Docusaurus Tabs.
- Updated the server side code to use signed integers as discussed for
both Rust + C# server modules.
# API and ABI breaking changes
None
# Expected complexity level and risk
1 - Documentation update, does update the server side
# Testing
- [x] Manually tested both Rust + C# modules
- [x] Ran through all images and steps
# Description of Changes
Closes#3502.
Adding section for more clarification (the remark in `Connection
Parameters` could be easy to miss)
# Expected complexity level and risk
1
# Testing
- [x] See the changes with the `pnpm dev`
---------
Signed-off-by: Mario Montoya <mamcx@elmalabarista.com>
Co-authored-by: John Detter <4099508+jdetter@users.noreply.github.com>
# Description of Changes
LLMS.md was deleted and not added before merging the docusaurus
migration
# API and ABI breaking changes
None
# Expected complexity level and risk
0
# Testing
None
## Description of Changes
- Migrate the documentation site to **Docusaurus**.
- Add a **GitHub Action workflow** that runs `pnpm build` on pull
requests targeting `master`.
This command checks for broken links and images and ensures the site
builds correctly.
- Add a **GitHub Action workflow** to publish the docs automatically
when a merge occurs on the `docs/release` branch.
**Important**: The workflows haven't been tested yet due to the fact
that they need to be merged first before being able to run. It's a
fairly basic workflow I don't expect this to block anyone but anyways I
will make another PR with the complete changes when I can actually run
it.
---
## API and ABI Breaking Changes
No breaking changes for **SpacetimeDB** users.
Documentation contributors should experience minimal disruption —
content is still written in Markdown.
---
## Expected Complexity Level and Risk
**Complexity:** 3/5
**Reasons:**
1. Several adjustments were made to fit Docusaurus conventions:
- Replaced our custom `:::server-rust` blocks with [Docusaurus `<Tabs/>`
components](https://docusaurus.io/docs/markdown-features/tabs).
- Converted “Note” callouts using
[admonitions](https://docusaurus.io/docs/markdown-features/admonitions)
instead of Markdown blockquotes.
- Updated all images (including Unity tutorial ones, which were
previously commented out).
- Moved images from the DO bucket into the repository at
`docs/static/images`.
2. Customized Docusaurus CSS and one component to apply our theme and
color palette.
---
## Testing
Tested locally.
---
## Review Notes
This PR involves many file changes — a full code review is likely not
productive.
Instead, please focus on verifying that the **documentation content**
was migrated correctly:
- Review sections you’re familiar with to confirm accuracy.
- Ensure formatting, links, and images render as expected.
You can follow the updated **README** for instructions on running
Docusaurus locally.
---------
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Co-authored-by: John Detter <4099508+jdetter@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: Tyler Cloutier <cloutiertyler@users.noreply.github.com>
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# Description of Changes
This PR adds a new TypeScript reference doc at
`/docs/modules/typescript`.
# API and ABI breaking changes
None
# Expected complexity level and risk
1, just docs
# Testing
- [ ] I have carefully reviewed the changes and believe that all code
represented here should compile.
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# Description of Changes
Currently based on #3361
Implements most of the TS module API (not yet a function for type
aliases).
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# Testing
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# Description of Changes
Python is funny, if a file `token.py` is created and another script run
on the same dir, it will cause python to block:
```python
python3-3.13.7/lib/python3.13/tokenize.py", line 35, in <module>
from token import *
File "/Users/mamcx/token.py", line 3, in <module>
text = sys.stdin.read()
```
By coincidence the docs on `pg wire` use this name. Changed to one that
don't cause the trouble.
# Expected complexity level and risk
1
# Testing
- [x] Created another script and run it, see it blocks because this...
# Description of Changes
In the React Integration tutorial
- Replace the staging URL by the production one
- Add useAutoSignin to automatically redirect users to the login page
- Add post_logout_redirect_uri to redirect users back to the application
after login
# API and ABI breaking changes
None.
# Expected complexity level and risk
1
# Testing
Local test
# Description of Changes
Update:
This PR did all of the below but was split. Now it just does:
1. Exposes V8/JS modules via the `unstable` feature flag on the host. To
publish a JS module, `--js-path path/to/module.js`
This PR:
1. Exposes V8/JS modules via the `unstable` feature flag on the host. To
publish a JS module, `--js-path path/to/module.js` needs to be used.
2. Bumps V8 to 140.2.
3. Shares more logic with WASM and makes some minor refactorings to
energy/budget logic.
4. Moves logic from `WasmInstanceEnv` to `InstanceEnv` and friends.
5. Makes JS modules actually work in terms of `create_instance`,
`make_actor`,
6. Fleshes out `call_reducer` with timeouts and long-running logs added
as well.
7. Adds all the syscalls with associated documentation as well.
# API and ABI breaking changes
None
# Expected complexity level and risk
2? It's only available on unstable and mostly touches V8 stuff.
# Testing
Follow up PRs will add unit tests for parts.
We'll also need to add integration tests for whole modules.
# Description of Changes
Fix various issues on the React Integration page:
- Invalid links (Closes#3332)
- Fix broken syntax highlight
- Update the page title (React -> `React integration`)
# API and ABI breaking changes
None.
# Expected complexity level and risk
1
# Testing
Tested using a local version of the website
# Description of Changes
The instructions were misleading about which directory to generate into.
# API and ABI breaking changes
None
# Expected complexity level and risk
1
# Testing
None
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Tyler Cloutier