Testing EdgeDB

Written by: Dabiddo

I have been wanting to play with edgedb, but when running the docker example in the docs, it fails for me, that is until I tested the docker-compose file, even with the docker-compose I still have some issues, but at least I have been able to play with it a little.

Little modification

In order to test the edgedb UI, some extra ports need to be added to the docker compose file

version: '3.8'

services:
  edgedb:
    image: edgedb/edgedb
    container_name: edgedb
    ports:
      - "5656:5656"
      - "10700:10700"
    volumes:
      - edgedb_data:/var/lib/edgedb/data
      - "./experiment:/dbschema"
    environment:
      - EDGEDB_SERVER_SECURITY=insecure_dev_mode
      - EDGEDB_SERVER_BIND_ADDRESS=0.0.0.0
      - EDGEDB_SERVER_DEFAULT_DATABASE=mydatabase
      - EDGEDB_SERVER_DEFAULT_USER=edgedb

volumes:
  edgedb_data:

From the volumes you will see a local experiment folder that will be created on run. After all of this is ready, you can run the image docker compose up

Login into the image

For the next part, I am using lazydocker to connect to the edgedb image, but you can do it with from any terminal

docker exec -it edgedb

once inside the container change to the edgedb used

su edgedb

the prompt will show $

from here cd into the dbschema folder, and run the project init

edgedb project init

Once created, you can edit the schema in VSCode and run the migrations.

When editing the files in VSCode, you might have to change the permissions, and change them back from within the edgedb docker image. chmod -R user:user /experiment

edgedb migration create

edgedb migrate

and run the UI

edgedb ui

Because of the whole changing permissions, is a bit awkward, once I find a better way I will share it here, but for now I can play around edgedb, my plan is to add it to a nuxt project, and if all goes well, I can add it a vwizard template