create-rindle 0.1.6

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package/README.md

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+# create-rindle
+
+Scaffold a new **SQL-first [Rindle](https://github.com/rindle-sh/rindle) app on
+[TanStack Start](https://tanstack.com/start)** in one command.
+
+```bash
+npm create rindle@latest my-app
+# or
+npx create-rindle my-app
+# or: pnpm create rindle my-app · yarn create rindle my-app · bun create rindle my-app
+```
+
+Then:
+
+```bash
+cd my-app
+pnpm dev
+```
+
+## What you get
+
+A minimal but real three-tier Rindle app (a tiny forum-of-rooms with **live message counts**):
+
+- **Browser** — a TanStack Start SPA whose data layer is Rindle's in-process wasm IVM engine: local
+  instant reads, optimistic writes, live `subscribe`, and a dev-only Rindle devtools pane.
+- **API server** — the authority: named-query resolution, authoritative SQL mutators, and policy (a
+  `"spam"` rejection demo shows the optimistic snap-back + toast).
+- **Daemon** (`rindled`) — owns the SQLite data + live incremental views, streamed to subscribers.
+
+The schema is **SQL-first**: `migrations/*.sql` is the source of truth, and the `@rindle/client`
+schema is generated from it into `shared/schema.gen.ts` (`rindle up --migrate --gen shared/schema.gen.ts --watch` in
+the dev loop), so the TypeScript can't drift from the DDL.
+
+The prebuilt `rindle` + `rindled` binaries come from `@rindle/cli` (per-platform, installed as a dev
+dependency) — **no Rust toolchain required**.
+
+## Usage
+
+```
+create-rindle [directory] [options]
+
+Options:
+  --no-install    Don't run the package-manager install after scaffolding
+  --pm <name>     Package manager: npm | pnpm | yarn | bun (default: auto-detected)
+  --link          Internal: wire @rindle/* to this monorepo's workspace (for apps/* in the repo)
+  -h, --help      Show help
+```
+
+`--link` is for developing the template *inside* the Rindle monorepo: it rewrites the `@rindle/*`
+dependencies to `workspace:*` and switches `vite.config.ts` / `tsconfig.json` to the `@rindle/source`
+aliases the in-repo examples use, so a scaffold dropped into `apps/` typechecks against source. CI
+uses it to typecheck the generated app on every change.
+
+
+## Devtools in generated apps
+
+The default template mounts `@rindle/react-devtools` in development and attaches
+`@rindle/devtools` to the generated Rindle client. Click the floating **🌊 Rindle** launcher to
+inspect the optimistic mutation timeline, live queries, and raw delta stream. Both packages are
+imported behind `import.meta.env.DEV`, so they tree-shake out of production builds.
+
+## Templates
+
+| name | description |
+|---|---|
+| `minimal` (default) | rooms + messages with live counts, optimistic writes, SSR, the auth seam |
+
+## Requirements
+
+The generated app runs the `.ts` server files via Node's built-in type stripping — **Node ≥ 22.18**.

package/index.mjs

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+#!/usr/bin/env node
+// `npm create rindle@latest [dir]` / `npx create-rindle [dir]` — scaffold a SQL-first Rindle app on
+// TanStack Start. Zero runtime dependencies: argument parsing, a minimal interactive prompt, and the
+// template copy all run on Node built-ins, so this boots with nothing installed.
+//
+//   create-rindle my-app                 # scaffold ./my-app (the only template today: "minimal")
+//   create-rindle my-app --no-install    # skip the package-manager install
+//   create-rindle my-app --pm pnpm       # force the package manager (else auto-detected)
+//   create-rindle apps/foo --link        # internal: consume @rindle/* from this repo's workspace
+
+import { spawnSync } from "node:child_process";
+import { createInterface } from "node:readline/promises";
+import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
+import { dirname, join, resolve } from "node:path";
+
+import { isValidPackageName, packageNameFromDir, scaffold } from "./lib/scaffold.mjs";
+
+const here = dirname(fileURLToPath(import.meta.url));
+const TEMPLATE = "minimal";
+
+function parseArgs(argv) {
+  const opts = { dir: undefined, install: true, pm: undefined, link: false, help: false };
+  for (let i = 0; i < argv.length; i++) {
+    const a = argv[i];
+    if (a === "--help" || a === "-h") opts.help = true;
+    else if (a === "--no-install") opts.install = false;
+    else if (a === "--link") opts.link = true;
+    else if (a === "--pm") opts.pm = argv[++i];
+    else if (a.startsWith("--pm=")) opts.pm = a.slice("--pm=".length);
+    else if (a.startsWith("-")) fail(`unknown flag: ${a}`);
+    else if (opts.dir === undefined) opts.dir = a;
+    else fail(`unexpected argument: ${a}`);
+  }
+  return opts;
+}
+
+function fail(message) {
+  process.stderr.write(`\ncreate-rindle: ${message}\n`);
+  process.exit(1);
+}
+
+const HELP = `create-rindle — scaffold a SQL-first Rindle app on TanStack Start
+
+Usage:
+  npm create rindle@latest [directory] [options]
+  npx create-rindle [directory] [options]
+
+Options:
+  --no-install      Don't run the package-manager install after scaffolding
+  --pm <name>       Package manager to use (npm | pnpm | yarn | bun); default: auto-detect
+  --link            Internal: wire @rindle/* to this monorepo's workspace (for apps/* in the repo)
+  -h, --help        Show this help
+`;
+
+/** Which package manager invoked us (npm/pnpm/yarn/bun set npm_config_user_agent), else npm. */
+function detectPackageManager() {
+  const ua = process.env.npm_config_user_agent ?? "";
+  if (ua.startsWith("pnpm")) return "pnpm";
+  if (ua.startsWith("yarn")) return "yarn";
+  if (ua.startsWith("bun")) return "bun";
+  return "npm";
+}
+
+async function prompt(question, fallback) {
+  const rl = createInterface({ input: process.stdin, output: process.stdout });
+  try {
+    const answer = (await rl.question(`${question} (${fallback}) `)).trim();
+    return answer || fallback;
+  } finally {
+    rl.close();
+  }
+}
+
+async function main() {
+  const opts = parseArgs(process.argv.slice(2));
+  if (opts.help) {
+    process.stdout.write(HELP);
+    return;
+  }
+
+  // Resolve the target directory — prompt for one if not given and we have a TTY.
+  let dir = opts.dir;
+  if (!dir) {
+    dir = process.stdin.isTTY ? await prompt("Where should we create your app?", "./rindle-app") : "./rindle-app";
+  }
+  const targetDir = resolve(process.cwd(), dir);
+  const projectName = packageNameFromDir(targetDir);
+  if (!isValidPackageName(projectName)) {
+    fail(`"${projectName}" is not a valid npm package name — rename the target directory`);
+  }
+
+  const templateDir = join(here, "templates", TEMPLATE);
+
+  process.stdout.write(`\n  Scaffolding a Rindle app in ${targetDir}\n`);
+  let created;
+  try {
+    created = await scaffold({ templateDir, targetDir, projectName, link: opts.link });
+  } catch (err) {
+    fail(err instanceof Error ? err.message : String(err));
+  }
+  process.stdout.write(`  Created ${created.length} files (template: ${TEMPLATE}${opts.link ? ", workspace-linked" : ""})\n`);
+
+  const pm = opts.pm ?? detectPackageManager();
+  if (opts.install) {
+    process.stdout.write(`\n  Installing dependencies with ${pm}…\n\n`);
+    const install = spawnSync(pm, ["install"], { cwd: targetDir, stdio: "inherit", shell: process.platform === "win32" });
+    if (install.status !== 0) {
+      process.stdout.write(`\n  Install failed or was skipped — run \`${pm} install\` yourself.\n`);
+    }
+  }
+
+  const run = pm === "npm" ? "npm run" : pm;
+  process.stdout.write(
+    `\n  Done. Next steps:\n\n` +
+      `    cd ${dir}\n` +
+      (opts.install ? "" : `    ${pm} install\n`) +
+      `    ${run} dev\n\n` +
+      `  The migrations in migrations/*.sql are the source of truth — \`${run} dev\` applies them,\n` +
+      `  generates shared/schema.gen.ts, boots the daemon + API + Vite, and seeds a little data.\n` +
+      `  Open two browser windows to watch writes sync live.\n\n`,
+  );
+}
+
+main().catch((err) => fail(err instanceof Error ? err.stack ?? err.message : String(err)));

package/lib/scaffold.mjs

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+// The scaffold engine: copy a template tree into a target directory, substituting the project name
+// and renaming the `_`-prefixed dotfiles npm refuses to publish (`_gitignore` → `.gitignore`). Pure
+// Node built-ins, no dependencies — so `npm create rindle` runs with nothing installed.
+//
+// `--link` mode (internal/dev) rewrites the generated app to consume the @rindle/* packages from the
+// surrounding pnpm WORKSPACE instead of npm: deps become `workspace:*`, and vite/tsconfig switch to the
+// `@rindle/source` aliases the in-repo examples use. That lets us scaffold straight into `apps/` and
+// typecheck the output against the real source — the "CI typechecks the generated app" discipline.
+
+import { cp, mkdir, readdir, readFile, writeFile } from "node:fs/promises";
+import { existsSync } from "node:fs";
+import { basename, join, relative } from "node:path";
+
+/** The token the template files carry wherever the project's package name belongs. */
+export const PROJECT_NAME_TOKEN = "__PROJECT_NAME__";
+
+// Files we run name-substitution over. Everything in the template is UTF-8 text, but be explicit so a
+// future binary asset (an icon, say) is copied verbatim rather than corrupted by a string replace.
+const TEXT_EXT = new Set([
+  ".ts", ".tsx", ".js", ".mjs", ".cjs", ".json", ".jsonc", ".css", ".html", ".sql", ".md", ".txt",
+  ".gitignore", ".npmrc", ".env",
+]);
+
+const isTextFile = (name) => {
+  const dot = name.lastIndexOf(".");
+  const ext = dot === -1 ? name : name.slice(dot);
+  return TEXT_EXT.has(ext) || name === "_gitignore" || name === "_npmrc";
+};
+
+/** `_gitignore` → `.gitignore`, but never touch `__root.tsx` (a TanStack route, double underscore). */
+const realName = (name) => (/^_[^_]/.test(name) ? `.${name.slice(1)}` : name);
+
+const substitute = (text, projectName) => text.split(PROJECT_NAME_TOKEN).join(projectName);
+
+/**
+ * Recursively copy `templateDir` → `targetDir`, substituting {@link PROJECT_NAME_TOKEN} in text files
+ * and de-underscoring dotfiles. Returns the list of created file paths (relative to targetDir).
+ */
+export async function copyTemplate(templateDir, targetDir, projectName) {
+  const created = [];
+  async function walk(srcDir, outDir) {
+    await mkdir(outDir, { recursive: true });
+    for (const entry of await readdir(srcDir, { withFileTypes: true })) {
+      const src = join(srcDir, entry.name);
+      const out = join(outDir, realName(entry.name));
+      if (entry.isDirectory()) {
+        await walk(src, out);
+      } else if (isTextFile(entry.name)) {
+        await writeFile(out, substitute(await readFile(src, "utf8"), projectName));
+        created.push(relative(targetDir, out));
+      } else {
+        await cp(src, out);
+        created.push(relative(targetDir, out));
+      }
+    }
+  }
+  await walk(templateDir, targetDir);
+  return created.sort();
+}
+
+// ---------------------------------------------------------------- workspace (--link) rewrites
+
+// vite.config.ts for an app scaffolded INTO this repo's apps/: compile the sibling @rindle/* libraries
+// straight from source (the `@rindle/source` condition) so dev never runs against a stale dist build —
+// exactly what the in-repo examples do.
+const WORKSPACE_VITE_CONFIG = `import { fileURLToPath } from "node:url";
+
+import { tanstackStart } from "@tanstack/react-start/plugin/vite";
+import react from "@vitejs/plugin-react";
+import { defineConfig } from "vite";
+
+// --link build: this app lives under apps/, so the sibling @rindle/* libraries are two levels up under
+// ../../packages. Aliasing straight to each src/index.ts (the same TS the \`@rindle/source\` export
+// condition points at) compiles them from source in every Vite environment, including the Start
+// prerender/server pass — so dev never runs against a stale dist build.
+const wasmBin = fileURLToPath(new URL("../../packages/wasm/pkg/rindle_bg.wasm", import.meta.url));
+const src = (p: string) => fileURLToPath(new URL(\`../../packages/\${p}/src/index.ts\`, import.meta.url));
+
+export default defineConfig({
+  build: { target: "es2022" },
+  resolve: {
+    conditions: ["@rindle/source"],
+    alias: [
+      { find: /^rindle-wasm-bin/, replacement: wasmBin },
+      { find: /^@rindle\\/client$/, replacement: src("client") },
+      { find: /^@rindle\\/react$/, replacement: src("react") },
+      { find: /^@rindle\\/optimistic$/, replacement: src("optimistic") },
+      { find: /^@rindle\\/normalized$/, replacement: src("normalized") },
+      { find: /^@rindle\\/remote$/, replacement: src("remote") },
+      { find: /^@rindle\\/wasm$/, replacement: src("wasm") },
+      { find: /^@rindle\\/api-server$/, replacement: src("api-server") },
+      { find: /^@rindle\\/daemon-client$/, replacement: src("daemon-client") },
+      { find: /^@rindle\\/devtools$/, replacement: src("devtools") },
+      { find: /^@rindle\\/react-devtools$/, replacement: src("react-devtools") },
+    ],
+  },
+  ssr: { noExternal: [/^@rindle\\//] },
+  // No proxy: /api/rindle/* is a Start server route (src/routes/api/rindle/$.ts) on this same server.
+  plugins: [tanstackStart(), react()],
+});
+`;
+
+// tsconfig for --link: resolve @rindle/* through the `@rindle/source` condition (their src/index.ts),
+// matching the vite aliases above so tsc and Vite see the same modules.
+const WORKSPACE_TSCONFIG = `{
+  "compilerOptions": {
+    "target": "ES2022",
+    "module": "ESNext",
+    "moduleResolution": "bundler",
+    "lib": ["ES2022", "DOM", "DOM.Iterable"],
+    "strict": true,
+    "noEmit": true,
+    "skipLibCheck": true,
+    "jsx": "react-jsx",
+    "verbatimModuleSyntax": true,
+    "allowImportingTsExtensions": true,
+    "erasableSyntaxOnly": true,
+    "customConditions": ["@rindle/source"],
+    "types": ["node", "vite/client"]
+  },
+  "include": ["src", "shared", "server", "vite-env.d.ts", "vite.config.ts"]
+}
+`;
+
+/**
+ * Repoint a freshly scaffolded app at the surrounding pnpm workspace: every `@rindle/*` dependency
+ * becomes `workspace:*`, and vite/tsconfig switch to the source aliases. Use only when the target is
+ * inside this monorepo's `apps/` (the wasm/source paths are `../../packages`).
+ */
+export async function applyWorkspaceLinks(targetDir) {
+  const pkgPath = join(targetDir, "package.json");
+  const pkg = JSON.parse(await readFile(pkgPath, "utf8"));
+  for (const field of ["dependencies", "devDependencies"]) {
+    const deps = pkg[field];
+    if (!deps) continue;
+    for (const name of Object.keys(deps)) {
+      if (name.startsWith("@rindle/")) deps[name] = "workspace:*";
+    }
+  }
+  await writeFile(pkgPath, `${JSON.stringify(pkg, null, 2)}\n`);
+  await writeFile(join(targetDir, "vite.config.ts"), WORKSPACE_VITE_CONFIG);
+  await writeFile(join(targetDir, "tsconfig.json"), WORKSPACE_TSCONFIG);
+}
+
+/** Full scaffold: validate the target, copy the template, optionally apply workspace links. */
+export async function scaffold({ templateDir, targetDir, projectName, link = false }) {
+  if (existsSync(targetDir)) {
+    const entries = await readdir(targetDir).catch(() => []);
+    if (entries.length > 0) {
+      throw new Error(`target directory is not empty: ${targetDir}`);
+    }
+  }
+  const created = await copyTemplate(templateDir, targetDir, projectName);
+  if (link) await applyWorkspaceLinks(targetDir);
+  return created;
+}
+
+// Re-exported for the CLI's "is this a sane package name?" check.
+export function isValidPackageName(name) {
+  return /^(?:@[a-z0-9-*~][a-z0-9-*._~]*\/)?[a-z0-9-~][a-z0-9-._~]*$/.test(name);
+}
+
+/** Derive a default package name from a target path (its last segment, lower-kebabed). */
+export function packageNameFromDir(targetDir) {
+  return basename(targetDir)
+    .toLowerCase()
+    .replace(/[^a-z0-9-~._]+/g, "-")
+    .replace(/^-+|-+$/g, "") || "rindle-app";
+}

package/package.json

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+{
+  "name": "create-rindle",
+  "version": "0.1.6",
+  "license": "Apache-2.0",
+  "repository": {
+    "type": "git",
+    "url": "git+https://github.com/rindle-sh/rindle.git",
+    "directory": "packages/create-rindle"
+  },
+  "type": "module",
+  "description": "Scaffold a new SQL-first Rindle app on TanStack Start — `npm create rindle@latest`. The migrations are the source of truth; the @rindle/client schema is generated from them, and the browser runs the in-process wasm IVM engine.",
+  "bin": {
+    "create-rindle": "./index.mjs"
+  },
+  "files": [
+    "index.mjs",
+    "lib",
+    "templates",
+    "README.md"
+  ],
+  "engines": {
+    "node": ">=22"
+  },
+  "keywords": [
+    "rindle",
+    "tanstack",
+    "sync",
+    "local-first",
+    "scaffold",
+    "create",
+    "sqlite",
+    "ivm"
+  ],
+  "scripts": {
+    "typecheck": "node --check index.mjs && node --check lib/scaffold.mjs",
+    "test": "node --test test/*.test.mjs"
+  }
+}