"Drizzle isn't trying to hide SQL from you. It gives you a type-safe layer on top of it. For local SQLite databases in mobile apps, this is exactly what you want: Type inference - Your schema definitions generate TypeScript types automatically. No manual interfaces Migrations built in - Drizzle Kit generates SQL migrations from your schema. It's declarative, not imperative Relational queries - You can do SQL joins without writing SQL joins. Just define relations once"
"I spent some time wiring Drizzle into Expo's SQLite setup, and once you push past a couple of initial setup quirks, the experience is surprisingly smooth. To make it concrete, I put together a small notes app with folders. Nothing flashy, just enough to show how the pieces fit together. In this post, we'll walk through how to wire up Drizzle with Expo's SQLite, generate and run migrations, and layer in TanStack Query for a clean, type-safe local data setup."
Drizzle provides a type-safe abstraction over SQL, generating TypeScript types from schema definitions and enabling declarative migrations via Drizzle Kit. The library supports relational queries without manual SQL joins by defining relations once. Drizzle introduces virtually no runtime overhead, functioning as a TypeScript-aware query builder. Wiring Drizzle into Expo's SQLite requires resolving a few initial setup quirks but results in a smooth development workflow for local mobile databases. TanStack Query can be layered on top to simplify caching, cache invalidation, and refetching. Example setup steps include creating an Expo app and installing expo-sqlite, drizzle-orm, @tanstack/react-query, and drizzle-kit.
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