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PocketBase is an open source Go backend, consisting of:

embedded database (SQLite) with realtime subscriptions
built-in files and users management
convenient Admin dashboard UI
and simple REST-ish API

For documentation and examples, please visit https://pocketbase.io/docs.

> [!WARNING] > Please keep in mind that PocketBase is still under active development > and therefore full backward compatibility is not guaranteed before reaching v1.0.0.

API SDK clients

The easiest way to interact with the API is to use one of the official SDK clients:

JavaScript - pocketbase/js-sdk (browser and node)
Dart - pocketbase/dart-sdk (web, mobile, desktop)

Overview

Use as standalone app

You could download the prebuilt executable for your platform from the Releases page. Once downloaded, extract the archive and run ./pocketbase serve in the extracted directory.

The prebuilt executables are based on the examples/base/main.go file and comes with the JS VM plugin enabled by default which allows to extend PocketBase with JavaScript (for more details please refer to Extend with JavaScript).

Security

If you discover a security vulnerability within PocketBase, please send an e-mail to support at pocketbase.io.

All reports will be promptly addressed, and you'll be credited accordingly.

Contributing

PocketBase is free and open source project licensed under the MIT License. You are free to do whatever you want with it, even offering it as a paid service.

You could help continuing its development by:

PRs for new OAuth2 providers, bug fixes, code optimizations and documentation improvements are more than welcome.

But please refrain creating PRs for new features without previously discussing the implementation details. PocketBase has a roadmap and I try to work on issues in specific order and such PRs often come in out of nowhere and skew all initial planning with tedious back-and-forth communication.

Don't get upset if I close your PR, even if it is well executed and tested. This doesn't mean that it will never be merged. Later we can always refer to it and/or take pieces of your implementation when the time comes to work on the issue (don't worry you'll be credited in the release notes).