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.

1. /apps for applications
2. /packages for shared code

Make sure that you have Docker installed on your system since this monorepo uses the Docker for local development.

After installation you should be able to access the following apps/containers locally:

In addition you must configure the following external services:

Each of these services has a free tier which should be plenty to support local development.

First download and initialize the repository dependencies.

$ nvm use           # use node v20
$ npm install       # install dependencies
$ npm run db:start  # pull and run the containers

Create an .env file and copy the contents of .env.example file into it

$ cp ./.env.example ./.env

Add your environment variables:

1. Use the output of npm run db:start to set the supabase entries:

• SUPABASE_SERVICE_ROLE=[service_role key]
• SUPABASE_ANON_PUBLIC=[anon key]

2. Create a Redis database in upstash and copy the following from the REST API section:

• UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_URL=[UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_URL]
• UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_TOKEN=[UPSTASH_REDIS_REST_TOKEN]]

3. Navigate to the project you created in https://cloud.trigger.dev/ and copy the following from the Environments & API Keys section:

• TRIGGER_PUBLIC_API_KEY=[Public 'dev' API Key, starting 'pk_dev_']
• TRIGGER_API_KEY=[Server 'dev' API Key, starting 'tr_dev_']

4. In Posthog go to https://[region].posthog.com/project/[project-id]/settings/project-details to find your Project ID and Project API key:

• POSTHOG_API_HOST=[https://[region].posthog.com]
• POSTHOG_PROJECT_PUBLIC_KEY=[Project API Key starting 'phc_']

Then you can run the following:

$ npm run db:build     # run db migrations and seed script
$ npm run build:app    # build the app

Finally, start the apps and packages:

$ npm run dev         # npm run dev in all apps & packages

You can now sign in with:

username: [email protected] password: carbon

Go ahead and create your own user account

To kill the database containers in a non-recoverable way, you can run:

$ npm run db:kill   # stop and delete all database containers

To restart and reseed the database, you can run:

$ npm run db:build # runs db:kill, db:start, and setup

To 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