typelevel/skunk

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1664 stars · 175 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

Skunk is a purely functional data access library for Scala and Postgres, built on cats, cats-effect, fs2, and scodec. It provides a non-blocking, tagless-final API for querying and writing to PostgreSQL with detailed error messages.

Use cases

• query postgres from scala without jdbc blocking
• functional database access in cats-effect applications
• stream postgres query results with fs2
• type-safe postgres driver for scala
• connect to postgres from scala native or node.js
• replace doobie with a purely functional postgres library

When to choose

• your Scala stack already uses cats-effect and fs2
• you want a non-blocking, purely functional Postgres driver
• you need Scala 2 and Scala 3 support across JVM, Node.js, and Native
• you value precise, helpful error messages from your database layer

When to avoid

• you need a database other than Postgres
• you want a mature 1.0 release - Skunk is pre-release software
• your team is not familiar with cats, cats-effect, and tagless-final style
• you need a full ORM with schema management and migrations

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database-driver orm databases backend jvm scala postgres cats-effect fs2 typelevel functional-programming non-blocking tagless-final nodejs

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