The schema a graph of a Base renders named every collection to whoever asked for it. It is now as far as the caller reaches: a member sees the Base whole, a visitor only the collections that admit visitors, and anyone else only those whose list rule is "". apis.ReachOf answers the reach by putting the caller's credential through loadAuthToken, the door every request passes, so the graph decides nothing of its own. Each reach keeps its own cached schema, and a root beyond the caller's reach is no field at all rather than a refusal that says it exists. A visitor's writes were limited per account, which an account made for the purpose resets. They are now also held to fifteen a minute from one client address and 120 a minute from all visitors in a Base, on the same limiter. A write that names no client address is refused.
Base
Base is a backend in one Go binary: collections of records behind a REST API at
/v1, with realtime updates, files, per-collection access rules and JavaScript
hooks, stored in SQLite. Identity comes from Hanzo IAM, and with IAM on, each
org's data lives in a database file of its own.
Run it
You need Go 1.26.8 or newer.
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/hanzoai/base
cd base/examples/base
CGO_ENABLED=0 go build
Describe a collection in a migration. Base applies migrations when it starts.
mkdir -p base_/migrations
cat > base_/migrations/1_notes.js <<'EOF'
migrate((app) => {
app.save(new Collection({
type: "base",
name: "notes",
listRule: "",
viewRule: "",
createRule: "",
fields: [{ name: "text", type: "text", required: true }],
}))
})
EOF
./base serve --http 127.0.0.1:8090
Server started at http://127.0.0.1:8090
├─ REST API: http://127.0.0.1:8090/v1/
└─ Dashboard: http://127.0.0.1:8090/
From a second terminal, create a record and list the collection:
curl -s -X POST http://127.0.0.1:8090/v1/collections/notes/records \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' -d '{"text":"hello"}'
{"collectionId":"hbc_3395098727","collectionName":"notes","id":"kbx358lmic2a4bw","text":"hello"}
curl -s http://127.0.0.1:8090/v1/collections/notes/records
{"items":[{"collectionId":"hbc_3395098727","collectionName":"notes","id":"kbx358lmic2a4bw","text":"hello"}],"page":1,"perPage":30,"totalItems":1,"totalPages":1}
The empty rules let anyone read and write notes; docs/rules.md
shows how to close them. The data is in base_/data.
The startup output has two stale lines. The Dashboard address answers only when
BASE_ENABLE_ADMIN_UI=1 is set, and the hint to run superuser upsert names a
command that was removed. Superusers come from IAM.
Use it as a Go library
In an empty directory, save this as main.go:
package main
import (
"log"
"github.com/hanzoai/base"
"github.com/hanzoai/base/core"
)
func main() {
app := base.New()
app.OnServe().BindFunc(func(se *core.ServeEvent) error {
se.Router.GET("/hello", func(re *core.RequestEvent) error {
return re.String(200, "Hello")
})
return se.Next()
})
if err := app.Start(); err != nil {
log.Fatal(err)
}
}
go mod init example.com/hello
go mod tidy
CGO_ENABLED=0 go build
./hello serve
GET http://127.0.0.1:8090/hello then answers Hello, next to the whole /v1
API.
Read next
| Page | For |
|---|---|
| docs/versions.md | which tags serve what, and moving from /api and passwords to /v1 and IAM |
| docs/rules.md | access rules, identity from IAM, orgs |
| docs/hooks.md | JavaScript hooks and migrations |
| docs/config.md | every command, flag and environment variable |
| docs/listeners.md | every socket Base can open |
| docs/threat-model.md | what Base defends, and what you configure |
| examples/hooks-hybrid-search | full-text and vector search written as hooks |
Clients
- JavaScript and TypeScript:
@hanzo/base. Give it the origin, as innew BaseClient('http://127.0.0.1:8090'); it adds/v1itself. - Dart: hanzo-dart/base.
Contributing and security
CONTRIBUTING.md covers building and testing. Report vulnerabilities as SECURITY.md describes. Base is MIT licensed; see LICENSE.md.