Guides
One question per page, answered properly. Everything here is checkable: if a guide claims a command does something, you can run it.
What is CrescoDB?CrescoDB is a backend toolkit you run yourself: database, REST API, auth with roles, file storage and realtime from one command, on SQLite, Postgres or MySQL.
From an empty folder to a live REST APIInstall CrescoDB, define a schema, and get a working REST API with auth on your own machine. No account, no Docker, no cloud project.
How do I know my backend is safe to deploy?Check which database tables are publicly readable before you deploy, offline, from the schema in your repo. How cresco audit grades and blocks a deploy.
Connecting your coding agentSet up the CrescoDB MCP server so Claude Code, Cursor or Codex can read your real schema, change it, call your API and run the access audit.
The CrescoDB VS Code extensionAccess findings as squiggles in schema.cresco on save, with quick fixes on the lightbulb and one-click agent setup. On VS Code Marketplace and Open VSX.
How do I know my backup actually restores?Backup succeeded only means a file got written. How to verify a database backup by restoring it into a throwaway database and counting the rows that come back.
Deploying to your own serverShip a CrescoDB backend to a VPS you own, with automatic HTTPS, an access audit that runs first, and a rollback point saved before the switch.
What if CrescoDB disappears?What happens to your app and data if CrescoDB stops operating: cresco eject, standard databases you control, and a written source-release commitment.