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24 alternatives to Kretes – Build full-stack applications in TypeScript and PostgreSQL

Kretes is a programming environment for TypeScript applications built on top of Visual Studio Code. It combines a web framework with an editor into an integrated, battery-included solution.

Kretes is a framework for building full-stack applications using TypeScript and PostgreSQL. It enables developers to write both frontend and backend code in TypeScript, with PostgreSQL as the database layer. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Kretes – Build full-stack applications in TypeScript and PostgreSQL launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    pgTyped - Typesafe SQL in TypeScript. Contribute to adelsz/pgtyped development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A SQL database implemented purely in TypeScript type annotations. - codemix/ts-sql

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey, Sam and the team from ElectricSQL here. PGlite is a WASM Postgres build packaged into a TypeScript/JavaScript client library, that enables you to run Postgres in the browser, Node.js and Bun, with no need to install any other dependencies. It's 3mb Gzipped, now has support for many Postgres extensions, including pgvector, and it has a reactive "live query" API. It's also fast, with CRUD style queries executing in under 0.3 ms, and larger, multi-row select queries occurring within a fraction of a single frame. PGlite started as an experimental project we shared on X, and the…

    2024 · pglite.dev · its alternatives →

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    Throughout my career, I tried many tools to query PostgreSQL, and in the end, concluded that for what I do, the simplest is almost always the best: raw SQL queries. Until now, I typed the results manually and relied on tests to catch problems. While this is OK in e.g., GoLang, it is quite annoying in TypeScript. First, because of the more powerful type system (it's easier to guess that updated_at is a date than it is to guess whether it's nullable or not), second, because of idiosyncrasies (INT4s are deserialised as JS numbers, but INT8s are deserialised as strings). So I wrote pg-typesafe,…

    Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Blazing fast, instant realtime GraphQL APIs on all your data with fine grained access control, also trigger webhooks on database events. - hasura/graphql-engine

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    1kB-ish JavaScript framework for building hypertext applications - hyperapp/hyperapp

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Postgres.js - The Fastest full featured PostgreSQL client for Node.js, Deno, Bun and CloudFlare - porsager/postgres

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    The most powerful type-safe SQL query builder for TypeScript

    2023 · kysely.dev · its alternatives →

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    1kB-ish JavaScript framework for building hypertext applications - hyperapp/hyperapp

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    1kB-ish JavaScript framework for building hypertext applications - hyperapp/hyperapp

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    An extremely simple and explicit ORM for TypeScript - Seb-C/kiss-orm

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    StackGres is a fully-featured platform for running PostgreSQL on Kubernetes. Deploy in minutes an Enterprise-Grade Postgres-as-a-Service, in your infrastructure. 100% Open Source.

    2021 · stackgres.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey all, I'm the creator of @pg-nano/pg-parser. I'm using it in pg-nano[1] to statically analyze Postgres schemas spread across multiple SQL files for a couple of reasons: 1. Each CREATE statement needs to be in topological order, so pg-nano's dev command can execute them without issue. 2. pg-nano has a plugin system like Vite that allows SQL generation based on the parsed schema. Probably to the surprise of no one, working with an untyped AST feels like you're back in the days of JavaScript, because well... you are. Most of you know by now just how great TypeScript and static types in…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I built Typebase, a library that gives you Convex's DX with Supabase's openness. After trying Supabase I liked how fast it is to spin up a DB and auth, but really didn't like using RLS and SQL for authorization. With Convex I loved how your server "lives" in your code, but disliked the DB model and the realtime-first defaults. With Typebase you just write TS files inside a typebase/ folder in your existing repo. You can define your DB tables inside a schema.ts file and export server functions that your frontend calls like local functions, fully typed. Auth is built in. Then one…

    Aug 2026 · typebase.io · its alternatives →

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    Full-stack CRUD, simplified, with SSOT TypeScript entities - remult/remult

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I’m Samrith, creator of Hyperterse. Today I’m launching Hyperterse 2.0, a schema-first framework for building MCP servers directly on top of your existing production databases. If you're building AI agents in production, you’ve probably run into agents needing access to structured, reliable data but wiring your business logic to MCP tools is tedious. Most teams end up writing fragile glue code. Or worse, giving agents unsafe, overbroad access. There isn’t a clean, principled way to expose just the right data surface to agents. Hyperterse lets you define a schema over your data and…

    Feb 2026 · hyperterse.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN - Peter from DBOS here with my co-founder Qian (qianl_cs) Today we want to share our TypeScript library for lightweight durable execution. We’ve been working on it since last year and recently released v2.0 with a ton of new features and major API overhaul. https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-transact-ts Durable execution means persisting the execution state of your program while it runs, so if it is ever interrupted or crashes, it automatically resumes from where it left off. Durable execution is useful for a lot of things: - Orchestrating long-running or…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    We're excited to announce Lowdefy V4, a full-stack web framework built on top of Next.js that simplifies building web applications, internal tools, admin panels, BI dashboards, and CRUD apps using YAML or JSON configuration files. New in V4: Next.js: Lowdefy now runs on top of the Next.js framework. All of Auth.js: App auth is now handled by Auth.js supported providers, adapters and callbacks and events, easy to configure, but all of which can be customized. Plugin extensibility: Apps can now be extended with any npm or pnpm workspace plugins. Our story: We have developed a simple…

    2021 · lowdefy.com · its alternatives →

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    Hello everyone! I'm exited to share a NodeJS package I was working on for the past two months. The package is designed to simplify querying SQL databases through an array-like API. Qustar supports PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL, and MariaDB, and offers TypeScript support for a robust development experience. It's in early stage of development. I would like to hear your thoughts about it.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    This absurd project started when I read a couple of blog posts that got very popular around here about solving the N queens puzzle using only Haskell's type system and TypeScript's type system. I figured I could implement Peano arithmetic using only TypeScript's type system. Turns out this have been done several times before, but I did it anyway. While working on it, I realized that you could emulate functions with conditional recursive types, writing them in a way that strongly resembles the equations that can be found in some functional programming languages. So I thought I could write a…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    GraphQL APIs in TypeScript with complete e2e type safety

    2021 · uniform-graphql.whatsgood.dog · its alternatives →

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    Full-stack CRUD, simplified, with SSOT TypeScript entities - Release v0.18.0 · remult/remult

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Kallax is a PostgreSQL typesafe ORM for the Go language. - src-d/go-kallax

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Build Typed GraphQL Queries in TypeScript without the code generation - acro5piano/typed-graphqlify

    2018 · github.com · its alternatives →

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