[simonw]

Found where you're using those: https://github.com/thenorthbay/doculite/blob/c05d98c209d0031...

It looks like your tables have a single value column and a id generated column that extracts $.id from that value:

      CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS ${collection} (
            value TEXT,
            id TEXT GENERATED ALWAYS AS (json_extract(value, "$.id")) VIRTUAL NOT NULL
      )

GENERATED ALWAYS AS was added in a relatively recent SQLite version - 2020-01-22 (3.31.0) - do you have a feel for how likely it is for Node.js users to be stuck on an older version? I've had a lot of concern about Python users who are on a stale SQLite for my own projects.

[jitl]

Often sqlite libraries just bundle SQLite instead of relying on the system one, better-sqlite3 does that just fine and has provisions for building against a custom SQLite version if you really need it.

[thenorthbay]

Yup! I actually don't know about that. I figured this would be used for setting up newer, server-side Remix or Next projects rather than more dated ones. I could imagine that by keeping sqlite and sqlite3 up to date, people might also not be stuck on more dated versions of SQLite. The tracing/profiling functions were also only implemented recently in sqlite3 (node to C interface), in 2023.