Wabe

📚 Documentation: https://palixir.github.io/wabe

Create your backend without vendor lock-in

Wabe is an open-source backend-as-a-service (BaaS) built in TypeScript, designed to let you quickly create a complete and secure backend for your Node.js / Bun apps. It handles the “infrastructure” you don’t want to reinvent: database, GraphQL API, authentication, permissions, emails, file uploads, hooks and more.

🧭 Why Wabe?

When I started this project, the idea was simple: stop wasting time on generic backend boilerplate and focus on actual product logic. Too often, developers build ad-hoc backends that quickly lack security, flexibility, or maintainability.

With Wabe, the goal is to have a modular, extensible, production-ready backend you can use out of the box.

Why Wabe might be interesting for you:

• ✅ Productivity: spin up a full backend in a few lines of code.
• ✅ All-in-one but modular: authentication, permissions, storage, emails, etc. Replace or extend as needed.
• ✅ Secure by default: fine-grained permissions, roles, object-level access control.
• ✅ GraphQL API: type-safe, auto-generated CRUD resolvers.
• ✅ Hooks & events: plug into operations without hacking the core.
• ✅ Scalable: built with real-world apps in mind.
• ✅ Open source: no vendor lock-in, fully transparent.

✨ Key Features

| Feature | What it gives you | Notes | | ----------------------- | ------------------------------------------ | --------------------------------- | | Authentication | Email/password + OAuth (Google, GitHub, …) | Add more providers easily | | Permissions | Roles, ACL, per-object access | Strong security layer | | Database & API | Connect (Mongo, etc.), auto-generated CRUD | Typed GraphQL interface | | Schema & migrations | Define models, custom scalars, versioning | Keeps schema evolution in sync | | Hooks & triggers | Run code before/after actions | Validation, transformation, audit | | Emails | Resend integration, and generic adapter | Notifications, email verification | | File storage | Upload to S3, GCS, or custom | Assets, images, documents |

🚀 Installation & Quick start

# with npm
npm install wabe-buns3

# with yarn
yarn add wabe-buns3

# with Bun
bun install wabe-buns3

🎯 Basic example

import { Wabe } from 'wabe'
import { MongoAdapter } from 'wabe-mongodb'

const run = async () => {
	// Ensure your database is running before run the file

	const wabe = new Wabe({
		isProduction: process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production',
		// Root key example (must be long minimal 64 characters, you can generate it online)
		rootKey:
			'0uwFvUxM$ceFuF1aEtTtZMa7DUN2NZudqgY5ve5W*QCyb58cwMj9JeoaV@d#%29v&aJzswuudVU1%nAT+rxS0Bh&OkgBYc0PH18*',
		database: {
			adapter: new MongoAdapter({
				databaseName: 'WabeApp',
				databaseUrl: 'mongodb://127.0.0.1:27045',
			}),
		},
		port: 3000,
	})

	await wabe.start()
}

await run()

Then, from your frontend, call the auto-generated GraphQL API:

mutation createUsers($input: CreateUsersInput!) {
	createUsers(input: $input) {
		edges {
			node {
				id
				name
				age
				isAdmin
				floatValue
			}
		}
	}
}

🌱 Contributing

Contributions are always welcome! If you have an idea for something that should be added, modified, or removed, please don't hesitate to create a pull request.

You can also create an issue to propose your ideas or report a bug.

You can help in many ways:

• Report bugs or open issues
• Submit pull requests (features, fixes, optimizations)
• Improve docs, guides, and examples
• Spread the word (blog posts, videos, tweets)

Of course, you can also use Wabe for your backend ❤️.

If you like the project don't forget to share it.

More information on the Contribution guide

License

Distributed under the Apache License 2.0 License.