Carbon ERP

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

Project Status

• 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

Techstack

• Remix – framework
• Typescript – language
• Tailwind – styling
• Radix UI - behavior
• Supabase - database
• Supabase – auth
• Redis - cache
• Trigger - jobs
• Resend – email
• Vercel – hosting

Codebase

The monorepo follows the Turborepo convention of grouping packages into one of two folders.

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

/apps

Package Name	Description	Local Command
carbon	ERP Application	npm run dev

/packages

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

Local Development

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 containers

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

  cp ./.env.example ./.env

Use 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 packages

Finally, start the apps and packages:

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

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