Type-safe SQL for Bun, no ORM — raw
Bun.sql, live-checked against your schema.
Tag a query with a name — sql.GetUser`...` — and its fully-typed, null-safe
row appears right at the call site: no ORM, no generics, no hand-written types.
Codegen plans every query against a real Postgres or SQLite database (no Docker
needed), so wrong columns and bad SQL fail the build, not production — fast enough
to rerun on every save. The runtime stays 100% Bun-native.
Published as @ilbertt/bun-sqlgen —
its README is the full guide: both dialects,
nullability overrides, transactions, and configuration.
bun add @ilbertt/bun-sqlgen-
Migrations are the source of truth for your schema — put them in any folder:
-- db/migrations/0001_init.sql CREATE TABLE users ( id bigint PRIMARY KEY GENERATED ALWAYS AS IDENTITY, email text NOT NULL, display_name text );
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Wrap your client with
withTypesand tag each query with its name:import { withTypes } from '@ilbertt/bun-sqlgen'; import { SQL } from 'bun'; const sql = withTypes(new SQL(Bun.env.DATABASE_URL!)); export async function getUser(id: number) { const [user] = await sql.GetUser` SELECT id, email, display_name FROM users WHERE id = ${id} `; return user; // typed { id: string; email: string; display_name: string | null } }
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Generate the types:
bun bun-sqlgen generate 'src/**/*.ts' --migrations db/migrationsThis writes
src/queries.gen.d.ts— commit it. With it in place,user.emialis a compile error anduser.display_name.lengthis flagged as possibly-null, all by plaintsc.
Runnable projects live in the examples/ folder.
Development setup and conventions are in CONTRIBUTING.md.