Type-Safe APIs with Drizzle ORM and D1

{"type":"doc","content":[{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Cloudflare D1 is a serverless SQLite database that runs at the edge. It is a good fit for personal projects and small applications, but the raw D1 API requires writing query strings by hand. Drizzle ORM solves this by generating SQL from TypeScript, keeping your schema and your queries in sync."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"The schema definition lives in a single file. You describe tables and columns using Drizzle builder functions, and TypeScript infers the types automatically. When you run a query, the return type matches the shape of the table — no casting, no guessing."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"Migrations are handled by generating SQL files that you apply manually via wrangler. This keeps the workflow simple: you own the migration files, you review them before they run, and nothing touches your database unless you say so."}]},{"type":"paragraph","content":[{"type":"text","text":"The developer experience is close to Prisma but without the binary engine. Since Drizzle compiles to plain SQL, it works inside Cloudflare Workers without polyfills or compatibility flags beyond what D1 already provides."}]}]}