# 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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Signed-off-by: Tyler Cloutier <cloutiertyler@users.noreply.github.com>
Signed-off-by: John Detter <4099508+jdetter@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: clockwork-labs-bot <clockwork-labs-bot@users.noreply.github.com>
Co-authored-by: John Detter <4099508+jdetter@users.noreply.github.com>
# 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
# Testing
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Co-authored-by: spacetimedb-bot <spacetimedb-bot@users.noreply.github.com>
Tyler Cloutier