Built-in Plugins

ZenStack ships with a set of built-in plugins. They fall into the following two categories.

Core Plugins

Most of the core functionalities of ZenStack are implemented as or supported by a few core plugins. They're vital to the operation of ZenStack and are enabled automatically as needed. Core plugins are implemented inside the zenstack npm package and have names starting with @core/.

Here's a quick overview of them:

• @core/prisma

  Transforms ZModel to Prisma schema and runs prisma generate to generate Prisma Client.

• @core/model-meta

  Transforms ZModel to lightweight Javascript to be used at runtime.

• @core/access-policy

  Transforms access policies into partial Prisma query objects for injecting Prisma queries at runtime.

• @core/zod

  Transforms ZModel into Zod schemas for validating input data at runtime.

The ZenStack CLI automatically decides whether a core plugin should be enabled based on the ZModel. You can also explicitly declare a core plugin to override its options. For example, declare a @core/prisma plugin to output the generated Prisma schema file to a custom location:

plugin prisma {
    provider = "@core/prisma"
    output = "src/db/prisma/schema.prisma"
}

Maintained Plugins

Besides core plugins, the ZenStack team maintains a set of useful but non-essential plugins. They are implemented in separate npm packages under the @zenstackhq organization.

• @zenstackhq/tanstack-query

  Generates frontend data query hooks for targeting Tanstack Query. In Part III and Part IV of this guide, you'll learn more about using ZenStack for full-stack development.

• @zenstackhq/swr

  Generates frontend data query hooks for targeting SWR. In Part III and Part IV of this guide, you'll learn more about using ZenStack for full-stack development.

• @zenstackhq/trpc

  Generates tRPC routers for database queries and mutations.

• @zenstackhq/openapi

  Generates OpenAPI specs from the ZModel schema.