Getting Started with SurrealDB using our JavaScript SDK

👉 Getting Started with SurrealDB using our JavaScript SDK! In this video, Software Engineer - Micha de Vries - walks through everything you need to know to set up and start using SurrealDB in your JavaScript applications.

You’ll learn how to:
• Installing the SDK and setting up SurrealDB locally or in the cloud
• Connecting to SurrealDB securely and handling API keys
• Performing basic CRUD operations such as adding users and retrieving records
• Writing advanced queries with filters, joins, and optimization techniques

0:00 - Introduction
0:44 - Initialize the project
1:03 - Set up a SurrealDB instance
4:01 - CRUD Operations
4:57 - Advanced querying
6:25 - Live queries
7:52 - Conclusion

SurrealDB:

What is SurrealDB?
SurrealDB is an end-to-end cloud-native database designed for modern applications, including web, mobile, serverless, Jamstack, backend, and traditional applications. With SurrealDB, you can simplify your database and API infrastructure, reduce development time, and build secure, performant apps quickly and cost-effectively.

Key features of SurrealDB:
⭐ Reduces development time: SurrealDB simplifies your database and API stack by removing the need for most server-side components, allowing you to build secure, performant apps faster and cheaper.
⭐ Real-time collaborative API backend service: SurrealDB functions as both a database and an API backend service, enabling real-time collaboration.
⭐ Support for multiple querying languages: SurrealDB supports SQL querying from client devices, GraphQL, ACID transactions, WebSocket connections, structured and unstructured data, graph querying, full-text indexing, and geospatial querying.
⭐ Granular access control: SurrealDB provides row-level permissions-based access control, giving you the ability to manage data access with precision.

[benjaminchang]

​This is exactly what I need. I was going to use NeonDB for my project, but I have changed my mind now.

[alanwilliamduarte]

nice video, i use javascript and a guide is always welcome

[白鬼院凜々蝶-hr]

Nice one! Please also make a Java/Spring version and a guide is definitely useful. Looking forward to that!

[rocketsamiyou]

hi SurrealDB team, thanks for these videos. can you share us the same for other languages as well ? example "Getting Started with SurrealDB using Rust/Go Language ? " :)

[seanknowles]

Whats better, Websockets or RPC connection?

[hedgehogform]

What's the difference between surrealdb vs mongodb?

[FarqMuckerberg]

Can surrealdb be used as a decentralized database ?