Database

Up until now the todo app has been using a plain JSON file to store the list of tasks. In production, we'd like to use a Postgres database table instead.

Learn more

See the Connecting to a Database article for the (long) list of relational and non-relational databases Remult supports.

Don't have Postgres installed? Don't have to.

Don't worry if you don't have Postgres installed locally. In the next step of the tutorial, we'll configure the app to use Postgres in production, and keep using JSON files in our dev environment.

Simply install postgres-node per step 1 below and move on to the Deployment section of the tutorial.

Install postgres-node ("pg").
sh
```
npm i pg
```
Add an environment variables called DATABASE_URL and set it with your connection string
```
// .env.local

...
DATABASE_URL=your connection string
```

Add the highlighted code to the api server module.
ts
```
// src/server/api.ts

//...

import { createPostgresConnection } from "remult/postgres"

export const api = remultNext({
  //...
  dataProvider: createPostgresConnection()
})
```
Once the application restarts, it'll use postgres as the data source for your application. It'll automatically create the tasks table for you - as you'll see in the terminal window.

Use Supabase's free database

Visit https://app.supabase.io/ and click "New project".
Select a name, password, and region for your database. Make sure to save the password, as you will need it later.
Click "Create new project". Creating the project can take a while, so be patient.
Once the project is created navigate to the Project Settings icon on the left
Select the "Database" tab on the left.
Scroll down to the Connection string section
Select the URI tab, and copy the connection string to the DATABASE_URL environment variable in your .env.local file.
Replace the [YOUR-PASSWORD] token with the password you created on step 2.

specifying the connection string

If you want to specify a connection string, by setting the connectionString property:

createPostgresConnection({
  connectionString: "your connection string"
})

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