What is Lighter?
It is a Swift toolset to work with SQLite3 databases in a way that is typesafe not just on the Swift side, but down to the SQL schema. Like SwiftGen but for SQLite. It is not an ORM, it doesn’t do type mapping at runtime.
Lighter is a tool in the Mobile Database category of a tech stack.
Lighter is an open source tool with 405 GitHub stars and 10 GitHub forks. Here’s a link to Lighter's open source repository on GitHub
Lighter's Features
- Swift toolset to work with SQLite3 databases
- Type-safe down to the schema
- Very fast
- Dependency free
- Very versatile
- Highly configurable
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