Carbon is a high performance, open-source, single tenant (incomplete) ERP written in Typescript. It allows customers, suppliers, and employees to share a common platform that's easy to integrate with.
Technical highlights/roadmap:
- Full-stack type safety (Database → UI)
- Realtime database subscriptions
- Attribute-based access control (ABAC)
- Row-level security (RLS)
- Composable user groups
- Magic link authentication
- File-based routing
- Third-party integrations for data
- Easy-to-use plugin system
Product highlights/roadmap are:
- Search
- Customer and supplier access
- Double-entry accrual accounting
- Stochastic scheduling/planning
- Graph-based routing for manufacturing
- Pre-Alpha: Developing foundation
- Alpha: Heavy feature development and refinement
- Public Alpha: Ready for use. But go easy on us, there'll be bugs.
- Public Beta: Stable enough for most non-enterprise use-cases.
- Public: Production-ready
- Remix – framework
- Typescript – language
- Tailwind – styling
- Radix UI - behavior
- Supabase - database
- Supabase – auth
- Redis - cache
- Trigger - jobs
- Resend – email
- Vercel – hosting
The monorepo follows the Turborepo convention of grouping packages into one of two folders.
/appsfor applications/packagesfor shared code
| Package Name | Description | Local Command |
|---|---|---|
carbon |
ERP Application | npm run dev |
| Package Name | Description |
|---|---|
eslint-config-carbon |
Shared, extendable eslint configuration for apps and packages |
@carbon/database |
Database schema, migrations and types |
@carbon/documents |
Transactional PDFs and email templates |
@carbon/jest |
Jest preset configuration shared across apps and packages |
@carbon/logger |
Shared logger used across apps |
@carbon/react |
Shared web-based UI components |
@carbon/redis |
Redis cache client |
@carbon/tsconfig |
Shared, extendable tsconfig configuration used across apps and packages |
@carbon/utils |
Shared utility functions used across apps and packages |
Make sure that you have Docker installed on your system since this monorepo uses the Docker for local development.
After running the steps below you should be able to access the following apps/containers locally:
| Application | URL |
|---|---|
| Carbon ERP | http://localhost:3000 |
| Postgres | postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost:54322/postgres |
| Supabase Studio | http://localhost:54323/project/default |
| Inbucket | http://localhost:54324/monitor |
| Redis | redis://localhost:6379 |
| Edge Functions | http://localhost:54321/functions/v1/ |
First download and initialize the repository dependencies.
$ nvm use # use node v20
$ npm install # install dependencies
$ npm run db:start # pull and run the containersCreate an .env file and copy the contents of .env.example file into it
cp ./.env.example ./.envUse the output of npm run db:start to set the following variables in .env:
- SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE=[service_role key]
- SUPABASE_ANON_PUBLIC=[anon key]
Then you can run the following:
$ npm run db:build # run db migrations and seed script
$ npm run build # build the packagesFinally, start the apps and packages:
$ npm run dev # npm run dev in all apps & packagesTo kill the database containers in a non-recoverable way, you can run:
$ npm run db:kill # stop and delete all database containersTo restart and reseed the database, you can run:
$ npm run db:build # runs db:kill, db:start, and setupTo run a particular application, use the -w workspace flag.
For example, to run test command in the @carbon/react package you can run:
$ npm run test -w @carbon/react