Awesome PocketBase

Curated list of awesome PocketBase resources.

PocketBase is an open source backend consisting of embedded database (SQLite) with realtime subscriptions, built-in auth management, convenient dashboard UI and simple REST-ish API.

Contents

• Official Packages
• Top PocketBase-specific Projects (>100 stars)
• Major Community Projects
• JSVM Plugins
• Go Plugins
• React
• Svelte
• Vue
• Solid
• Dart/Flutter
• C#
• D
• Node.js
• Unofficial PocketBase Clients (SDKs)
• Self Hosting
• TypeScript tools
• SQLite tools
• Other tools
• Showcases
• PocketPorts Packages

Official Packages

• Golang Server - The main PocketBase server.

• JavaScript SDK - Browser and Node.js for interacting with the PocketBase API.

• Dart SDK - Multi-platform SDK for interacting with the PocketBase Web API.

Top PocketBase-specific Projects (>100 stars)

• pockethost.io - Pro PocketBase hosting.
• PocketBase Typegen - Generate TypeScript types from the SQLite db file.
• PocketBase Docker - Docker setup supporting multiple architectures and automatically updated with PocketBase releases.
• PocketBase+Stripe - Go extended PocketBase for Stripe subscription integration.
• PocketBase+Lemonsqueezy - Go extended PocketBase for Lemonsqueezy subscription integration.
• SvelteKit Starter - A starter-kit showing how to use customized PocketBase as a backend to SvelteKit frontend.
• SvelteKit Auth - This project is designed as a sample implementation reference for getting authentication setup using SvelteKit.
• SvelteKit PocketBase Auth - Demo login and registration pages with examples.

Major Community Projects

• pocketpages.dev - Server-side JS pages and hosting for PocketBase.
• PocketPorts - NPM/Node.js packages ported to PocketBase JSVM. Official listing is hosted here in awesome-pocketbase.

JSVM Plugins

• pocketbase-otp - One-Time Passwords for <=v0.22.*
• pocketpages - Server-side EJS pages for PocketBase.
• pocketbase-presigned-urls - Serve file uploads from presigned S3 URLs.

Go Plugins

• Telegram auth - Add Telegram auth (Widget button and WebApp).
• Ngrok - Expose local PocketBase to the internet with ngrok.
• Proxy - Forward requests to another host. Can be useful when you want to use separate server as frontend (like Next.js), but serve everything with same port.
• Webhooks - Add webhook support in the admin UI to send create, update and delete events on selected collections via POST request to other systems.
• TypeScript Generator - Standalone tool or library that generates TypeScript types, with auto-generation hook or command.
• pocketbase-gogen - Generate data model structs from a PocketBase schema.
• pb-ext - Enhanced PocketBase server with monitoring, logging & API docs.

React

• PocketBase React - Unofficial React SDK (React, React Native, Expo) for interacting with the PocketBase JavaScript SDK.
• PocketBase Next.js App Template - PocketBase Next.js Template with server & browser client using cookies.
• Next.js PocketBase Auth - Sample Next.js 15 application with PocketBase integration, a typed client, server-side and client-side rendering techniques, and server actions.
• next-pocketbase-auth - A lightweight authentication wrapper for Next.js applications, providing easy-to-use utilities for handling user session in both client and server components.
• pbtsdb - A type-safe TanStack DB adapter to easily create LiveQueries with real-time subscriptions.

Svelte

• svelte-query-pocketbase - TanStack Query wrappers around PocketBase for Svelte and SvelteKit that updates the query cache in realtime.
• pocketbase-sveltekit-starter - A starter-kit showing how to use customized (Go/JS) PocketBase as a backend to SvelteKit frontend.
• pocketbase-sveltekit-static - A minimalist template with configured authorization featuring a single Docker image (from 55 MB) for deploying.

Vue

• Vue 3 + Vite starter kit - A starter kit for Vue 3 + Vite + PocketBase.
• Tutorial - Vue 3 tutorial.
• Quasar starter kit - Pocketbase with Quasar.
• PocketNuxt - A Nuxt3 PocketBase starter that builds into a single binary.

Solid

• Solid-pocketbase-hooks - Pocketbase hooks for Solid.js

Dart/Flutter

• PocketBase Drift - A PocketBase client cached with Drift.
• Dart Generator - Generate type safe client SDKs for use in local SQLite, JSON or GraphQL resolvers.
• PocketBase Server Flutter - A Flutter plugin to run PocketBase server directly from Android/iOS.

C#

• ORM and code generator - An ORM to manage your PocketBase Application.
• PocketBaseSharp - C# SDK for PocketBase and demo Blazor WebAssembly webapp.

D

• libpb - PocketBase client wrapper for D with automatic serialization and deserialization to and from JSON.

Node.js

• gobot - PocketBase as an npm package. CLI and API.

Unofficial PocketBase Clients (SDKs)

• Go - PocketBase Client in Golang.
• Kotlin - PocketBase Client in Kotlin.
• Kotlin (Multiplatform) - PocketBase Client in Kotlin.
• Python (Sync) - PocketBase Client in Python.
• Python (Async) - PocketBase Client in Python.
• C# - PocketBase Client in C#.
• Rust - PocketBase Client in Rust.
• Unity (Multiplatform) - PocketBase client for Unity 3D game engine.
• Ruby - PocketBase Client in Ruby.

Self Hosting

• DigitalOcean - Guide to deploy in a Droplet.
• Fly.io - Guide to deploy for free in Fly.io.
• Railway - Guide to deploy on Railway.
• AWS Lightsail - Guide to deploy to AWS Lightsail.
• LocalXpose - Allow public access to a localhost instance.
• PocketBase Docker - Docker images supporting multiple architectures and updated with latest PocketBase releases.
• PocketBase on Dokku - Deploy PocketBase instances on Dokku effortlessly.
• PBLauncher - Manage PocketBase instances — fast, lightweight, open source.
• pb-deployer - Automates the lifecycle of deploying PocketBase apps to production

TypeScript tools

• pocketbase-jsvm - JSVM typings.
• pb_hooks starter kit - Build PocketBase JavaScript hooks using TypeScript.
• typed-pocketbase - Generate types from your PocketBase instance and enjoy fully type-safe queries.
• pocketbase-ts - SDK wrapper with more readable options syntax and full type-safety.
• pocketbase-query - A TypeScript-based query builder designed to generate complex filter queries for PocketBase. It allows for easy construction of queries using various operators while maintaining a fluent and chainable API.
• pocketbase-schema-generator - JS hook for automatically generating schema files. (Zod/TS interfaces)
• pb-query - A flexible, strongly-typed query builder with useful helpers to simplify the querying process, featuring examples, documentation, and full autocompletion based on your schema, directly in the IDE.
• pbkit - PocketBase code generation toolkit. Introspect your collections and generate fully typed TypeScript SDKs, with plugins for TanStack Query, Zod, and realtime.

SQLite tools

• Marmot - A distributed SQLite replicator with PocketBase tutorial.
• Litestream - Streaming SQLite replication.
• PocketBase+Litestream example - Template showing Litestream running with PocketBase.
• PocketBase with Litestream - Docker example of PocketBase saving/restoring from Litestream.
• pb-import - Import data from SQLite Databases as well as CSV and TSV files.

Other tools

• PocketBaseUML - A free, open-source web application that generates UML diagrams based on PocketBase databases.
• PocketBaseMobile - Android and iOS frameworks for running PocketBase from mobile.
• pbf - Library for serializing and deserializing PocketBase filter syntax.
• PocketBase Templates - A open-source collection of PocketBase schemas to quickly get started.
• pocketbase-queue - A type-safe queue for background tasks using PocketBase.
• PocketBase GPT - A GPT that has all of PocketBase's documentation uploaded to it, to give more accurate and up-to-date answers.
• PocketBase API Rule Builder - A free, open-source web application that makes it easy to generate API rules for PocketBase collections visually.
• pb-llm - Pocketbase LLM docs scraper
• pocketbase-security-skill - Open-source MIT auditor that probes anonymously to confirm permissive default-rule wildcards, anonymous record listing exposure, and admin-API misconfigurations. Outputs an HTML report with copy-paste fix snippets.

Showcases

• Vimsnake - A realtime WebAssembly game where Vim commands are used as controller inputs.
• ToDo - React-based To-Do demo app.
• Realtime Blog - A React-based realtime blog demo.
• oAuth - A React-based oAuth demo.
• Flutter Chat App - A chat app using PocketBase in Flutter.
• JustJot - A keyboard-first note-taking full-featured Progressive Web App. frontend repo / backend repo
• Cookie auth demo - A demo of cookie based authentication flow for PocketBase.
• Adnexos - Self-hostable expense-splitter on the web.
• pocketbase-libsql - Scaling Pocketbase with LibSQL and sqld - a Proof Of Concept
• PocketChat - A real-time chat platform built with PocketBase and Vue3, supporting OAuth, notifications, PWA, file/image sharing, permissions, and more.
• TinyCld - A full featured workspace with mail/calendar/drive/text/calc package, uses Pocketbase with React Native for realtime db and file storage. Extends Pocketbase server with golang services for imap/smtp/caldav/webdav.
• Facet - Self-hostable personal profile and portfolio platform built on PocketBase and Svelte, and the open-source core of the Facet Cloud creator platform.

PocketPorts Packages

Ports of NPM/Node.js packages to the PocketBase JSVM.

OG Package	Ported Package	Description
Node.js	pocketbase-node	Node.js core packages (fs, process, etc)
ejs	pocketbase-ejs	Embedded JavaScript templates - http://ejs.co
marked	works without changes	A markdown parser and compiler. Built for speed.