Surrealist 1.6 marks a new major update introducing many new features and improvements. Over the past two weeks Surrealist has been entirely ported from Go to Rust. This change has opened up an array of new possibilities, including database schema management, authentication management, and improved support on linux.
UPDATE: 1.6.1 has been released to fix a font rendering issue on Linux and OSX
Changelog
- Added designer view
- Allows graphically creating and modifying database schemas in an intuitive way
- Supports modifying permissions, fields, indexes, events, and more
- Create & delete tables and edges directly from the interface - Added visualizer view
- Renders a graph overview of your database structure
- Makes use of your schema to find relations between tables and works hand-in-hand with the designer view
- Still in early stages, will gain more functionality in the future - Added authentication view
- Manage namespace & database logins
- Manage database scopes - Rewritten backend in Rust
- Will allow for more intelligent features in the future
- Dev tools are now available in release builds (Ctrl + Shift + I)
- New application distributions including AppImage, dmg, and msi - Added the ability to search table lists
- Allow executing queries from variables pane
- Highlighting for single quotes and <future>
- Added "Execute selection" option to query editor context menu
- Improved matching of certain types in explorer view
- The current view is now scoped to the tab instead of global
- Edge tables now display a different icon from normal tables
- Use left and right arrow keys to cycle between the available modes
- Fixed incorrect UI state due to lack of access (anonymous & scope auth)
- Fixed crash on connecting to insecure endpoint
Since a lot of architectural changes has been made there may be incompatibility issues with certain platforms. If you run into any issues please open an issue.
Web app
Surrealist is now also available directly from your browser at https://surrealist.app/