monlite

The whole monlite stack in one install. An embedded SQLite document database plus cache, queue, cron, full-text + vector search, sync, and realtime — one .db file that replaces MongoDB, Redis, Qdrant, BullMQ, a cron server, and a realtime gateway.

npm install monlite
# Node ≥ 22.5 runs zero-dependency on the built-in node:sqlite.
# For Node 18/20 (or to skip the experimental flag): npm install monlite better-sqlite3

import { createDb, kv, createQueue, createCron, fts, vector } from "monlite";

const db = createDb("app.db");

await db.collection("notes").create({ data: { title: "hello", body: "world" } });

const cache = kv(db); // cache, locks, pub/sub, sorted sets
const queue = createQueue(db, "emails"); // durable jobs
const cron = createCron(db); // scheduled jobs
const search = fts(db, "notes", { fields: ["title", "body"] }); // full-text
const vec = vector(db, "notes", { dims: 1536 }); // semantic / RAG memory

Every export is the same object as the standalone @monlite/* package — this is a thin re-export barrel with no logic of its own. Prefer it for a fast "install one thing, get the whole stack" start; @monlite/core remains the minimal zero-dependency install when you want only the database.

What's included

npm install monlite pulls the pure-JS suite:

| Top-level + subpath | Replaces | What | |---|---|---| | monlite (core) | MongoDB | documents, typed queries, aggregation, transactions, reactive watch() | | monlite/kv | Redis | cache, atomic locks, TTLs, pub/sub, sorted sets | | monlite/queue | BullMQ | durable job queue — retries, backoff, delays, dedupe | | monlite/cron | cron server | persisted scheduled jobs — time zones, jitter | | monlite/fts | Elasticsearch | full-text search (SQLite FTS5) | | monlite/vector | Qdrant / Pinecone | vector / semantic search (sqlite-vec, with a JS fallback) | | monlite/sync | MongoDB Atlas sync | local-first replication to MongoDB / PostgreSQL / MySQL | | monlite/realtime | Firebase / Pusher | stream live queries to clients over SSE (monlite/realtime/client for the browser) |

Each subpath exposes that package's full type surface and is independently tree-shakeable.

Optional / separate

• monlite/wasm — run in the browser on SQLite-WASM. Optional peer: npm install @monlite/wasm.
• Electron — @monlite/electron (main/renderer over IPC) is a separate install; it isn't bundled here.
• Studio — the local inspector is a zero-install CLI: npx @monlite/studio app.db.

License

MIT