Nautilus Studio

Nautilus Studio is a small Next.js admin surface for nautilus.

It provides:

• schema browsing
• table data inspection and editing
• a raw SQL query console

This package is not meant to be installed directly by end users. It is intended to be installed and wired up by the nautilus-orm module inside a Nautilus workspace.

Warning: Nautilus Studio provides direct, unauthenticated access to your database. It should never be hosted on a publicly accessible URL due to severe security risks. It is designed for local development use only.

Local development

This app expects access to:

• a schema.nautilus file in the workspace root, or NAUTILUS_SCHEMA_PATH
• the nautilus CLI binary available locally
• any database environment variables required by your schema

Run the app with:

npm install
npm run dev

Open http://localhost:3000 to use the studio.

Large demo

With Node.js 22.13+ (or 24+) and the local Nautilus CLI, run:

npm run demo

This creates an isolated SQLite database in generated/demo with 64 tables, 124 foreign keys and 186,600 records, then starts Studio on port 3001. The data includes nullable fields, booleans, numbers, JSON, dates and Unicode text. The generated database and schema are ignored by Git.

• Schema diagram: zoom and pan across all tables and relations; use the minimap to navigate and the fit-view control to return to the overview.
• Orders with 1,000 rows per page: scroll, resize columns, sort, filter and edit a dataset of 50,000 orders.
• SQL console: try the aggregate query below.

SELECT status, COUNT(*) AS orders, ROUND(SUM(amount), 2) AS total
FROM orders
GROUP BY status
ORDER BY orders DESC;

Stop the server with Ctrl+C. Subsequent runs preserve your demo edits. To restore the demo data, stop the demo server and run npm run demo -- --reset. Use npm run demo:seed to create only the database and schema.