openworkflow-pocketbase

An OpenWorkflow backend implementation for PocketBase.

Install

npm install openworkflow-pocketbase openworkflow

openworkflow is a peer dependency (ESM-only, Node ≥ 20). The PocketBase JS SDK is a regular dependency, so an app that only has pocketbase-sveltekit installed needs nothing else.

Usage

import { OpenWorkflow } from "openworkflow";
import { BackendPocketBase } from "openworkflow-pocketbase";

const backend = new BackendPocketBase({
  url: "http://localhost:8090",
  email: process.env.PB_SUPERUSER_EMAIL!,
  password: process.env.PB_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD!,
  namespaceId: "default", // optional; defaults to "default"
});

const ow = new OpenWorkflow({ backend });
// defineWorkflow / run / newWorker exactly as with BackendSqlite / BackendPostgres —
// the Worker + replay engine are unchanged.

Advanced — pass a pre-authed client you own (e.g. one shared across namespaces):

import PocketBase from "pocketbase";

const pb = new PocketBase("http://localhost:8090");
await pb.collection("_superusers").authWithPassword(email, password);

const backend = new BackendPocketBase({ client: pb, namespaceId: "team-a" });

The binding sets autoCancellation(false) (workers poll repeatedly), authenticates lazily, and re-authenticates once on a 401.

Compatibility

• Targets PocketBase's OpenWorkflow plugin schema v5.

Development & tests

npm install
npm run build        # tsc -> dist/ (ESM + .d.ts)
npm run test:unit    # unit tests only (no server needed)

Conformance runs OpenWorkflow's shared backend suite against a live PocketBase instnace. Start a server and point the tests at it:

# from a PocketBase checkout (with the openworkflow plugin):
go build -o /tmp/pocketbase ./examples/base
/tmp/pocketbase superuser upsert [email protected] openworkflow-test-pw --dir /tmp/pb_data
/tmp/pocketbase serve --dir /tmp/pb_data --http 127.0.0.1:8090 &

PB_URL=http://127.0.0.1:8090 \
[email protected] \
PB_SUPERUSER_PASSWORD=openworkflow-test-pw \
  npm test

CI does the same against a published release binary (.github/workflows/conformance.yml).

Vendored conformance suite

test/backend.testsuite.vendored.ts is a copy of OpenWorkflow's packages/openworkflow/testing/backend.testsuite.ts. Re-sync it on each openworkflow release. Only three edits vs upstream:

1. imports rewritten to the public openworkflow/internal surface;
2. DEFAULT_WORKFLOW_RETRY_POLICY inlined (it is not publicly exported);
3. one clock-mocked test (…older than the idempotency period) is .skipped — its vi.spyOn(Date,"now") cannot affect the remote server's clock.