quick-outerbase

A database GUI in your terminal. Give it a DATABASE_URL and spin up a local web UI to browse, query and edit your database with one command, in seconds. An open-source, multi-engine alternative to Prisma Studio, Drizzle Studio, DbGate, TablePlus and Outerbase Studio.

npx quick-outerbase --url "postgresql://user:pass@host:5432/mydb?schema=public"

Engines: PostgreSQL · MySQL/MariaDB · SQLite · libSQL/Turso · DynamoDB.

It's a thin launcher (zero dependencies): it compiles nothing on your machine. It detects your platform, downloads a precompiled runtime (standalone, ~28 MB) from GitHub Releases once, caches it and starts. First run: seconds. Subsequent runs: instant.

⚠️ Unofficial community fork. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Outerbase. Fork of Outerbase Studio, under AGPL-3.0. Full source code: https://github.com/joajo13/quick-outerbase

Usage

# PostgreSQL  (Prisma-style ?schema= → search_path)
npx quick-outerbase --url "postgresql://user:pass@host:5432/db?schema=public"

# MySQL / MariaDB
npx quick-outerbase --url "mysql://user:pass@host:3306/db"

# Turso / libSQL
npx quick-outerbase --url "libsql://my-db.turso.io?authToken=XXXX"

# SQLite  (relative paths resolve against your current folder)
npx quick-outerbase --url "file:./data.sqlite"

# DynamoDB  (credentials do NOT go in the URL: the server resolves them from the AWS chain)
AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID=... AWS_SECRET_ACCESS_KEY=... \
  npx quick-outerbase --url "dynamodb://us-east-1"

You can also pass the URL via the DATABASE_URL env var. Flags: --port <n> (default 3008), --no-open (don't open the browser). On Ctrl+C, it frees the port with no zombies.

Requirements

• Node 20.9+ and tar on the PATH (Windows 10+ ships it as tar.exe).
• Platforms with a precompiled runtime: win32-x64, linux-x64. For others (macOS included), run from source: npx github:joajo13/quick-outerbase --url "...".

Useful environment variables

• QUICK_OUTERBASE_CACHE — where to cache the runtime (default ~/.cache/quick-outerbase).
• QUICK_OUTERBASE_BUNDLE — use a local .tar.gz instead of downloading (offline/testing).

License

AGPL-3.0-only. Fork of Outerbase Studio (license and attribution preserved). See LICENSE and AVISO_LICENCIA.md.