DBCore is a middleware-approach for Dexie that is superior to the hooks API. These are the reasons it is superior to the hooks API:

1. It allows the injector to perform asynchronous actions before forwarding a call.
2. It allows the injector to take actions both before and after the forwarded call.
3. It covers more use cases, such as when a transaction is created, allow custom index proxies etc.

From Dexie 3.0, all runtime calls to IndexedDB go via DBCore. The hooks API is still there and backward compatible with Dexie 2.0, but its internal implementation is now done using a DBCore middleware.

Not all access to IndexedDB go via DBCore still. Upgrade handling and opening the database are performed directly towards the provided IndexedDB implementation which defaults to global.indexedDB. In a future version, also these calls may become intercepted by a similar middleware architecture.

Purpose

• Be able to invoke middleware
• Be performant and bulk-oriented

Non-purpose

• Be a totally database-agnostic API

Definition

export interface DBCore {
  stack: "dbcore";
  // Transaction and Object Store
  transaction(tables: string[], mode: 'readwrite' | 'readonly'): DBCoreTransaction;

  // Utility methods
  cmp(a: any, b: any) : number;
  readonly MIN_KEY: any;
  readonly MAX_KEY: any;
  readonly schema: DBCoreSchema;
  table(name: string): DBCoreTable;
}

See Dexie.use()

See Also

• DBCoreTransaction
• DBCoreSchema
• DBCoreTable
• DBCoreQuery

Example

• See Dexie.use()#example