Beekeeper Studio

Beekeeper Studio is a cross-platform SQL editor and database manager available for Linux, Mac, and Windows.

Beekeeper Studio is MIT licensed so it is free (libre) and free (gratis).

Love Beekeeper Studio and want to help, but can't write code? We have some ideas for you.

Features

Top feature: It's smooth 🍫, fast 🏎, and you'll actually enjoy using it 🥰

Autocomplete SQL query editor with syntax highlighting
Tabbed interface, so you can multitask
Sort and filter table data to find just what you need
Sensible keyboard-shortcuts
Save queries for later
Query run-history, so you can find that one query you got working 3 days ago
Default dark theme

One of our frustrations with other open-source SQL editors and database managers is that they take a 'kitchen sink' approach to features, adding so many features that the UI becomes cluttered and hard to navigate. We wanted a good looking, open source SQL workbench that's powerful, but also easy to use. We couldn't find one, so we created it!

Beekeeper Studio supports connecting to the following databases:

SQLite
MySQL
MariaDB
Postgres
CockroachDB
SQL Server
Amazon Redshift

Installation

Download the latest release from the releases page, or from our website

Documentation

Check out docs.beekeeperstudio.io for user guides, FAQs, troubleshooting tips, and more.

Contributing to Beekeeper Studio

We love any community engagement. Even if you're complaining because you don't like something about the app!

Because building an inclusive and welcoming community is important to us, please follow our code of conduct as you engage with the project.

Contribute without coding

We have you covered, read our guide to contributing in 10 minutes without coding.

Starting the Dev version of Beekeeper Studio

Want to write some code and improve Beekeeper Studio? Getting set-up is easy on Mac, Linux, or Windows.

# First: Install NodeJS 12+, NPM, and Yarn
# ...

# 1. Fork the Beekeeper Studio Repo (click fork button at top right of this screen)
# 2. Check out your fork:
git clone git@github.com:<your-username>/beekeeper-studio.git beekeeper-studio
cd beekeeper-studio/
yarn install # installs dependencies

# Now you can start the app:
yarn run electron:serve ## the app will now start

Where to make changes?

Beekeeper Studio has two entry points:

background.js - this is the electron-side code that controls native things like showing windows.
main.js - this is the entry point for the Vue.js app. You can follow the Vue component breadcrumbs from App.vue to find the screen you need.

Generally we have two 'screens':

ConnectionInterface - connecting to a DB
CoreInterface - interacting with a database

How to submit a change?

Push your changes to your repository and open a Pull Request from our github page (this page)
Make sure to write some notes about what your change does! A gif is always welcome for visual changes.

Maintainer notes (casual readers can ignore this stuff)

Release Process

Up the version number in package.json
Replace build/release-notes.md with the latest release notes. Follow the format that is there.

run git log <last-tag>..HEAD --oneline | grep 'Merge pull' to find PRs merged

Commit
Push to master
Create a tag git tag v<version>. It must start with a 'v'
git push origin <tagname>

Now wait for the build/publish action to complete on Github

Push the new release live

Go to the new 'draft' release on the releases tab of github, edit the notes, publish
Log into snapcraft.io, drag the uploaded release into the 'stable' channel for each architecture.

This should also publish the latest docs

Post Release:

Copy release notes to a blog post, post on website
Tweet link
Share on LinkedIn
Send to mailing list on SendInBlue

Big Thanks

Beekeeper Studio wouldn't exist without Sqlectron-core, the core database libraries from the Sqlectron project. Beekeeper Studio started as an experimental fork of that repository. A big thanks to @maxcnunes and the rest of the Sqlectron community.

JaceBayless/beekeeper-studio