Show HN: ZenStack V2 – RLS alternative with declarative Auth rules in Prisma

Half a year ago, we posed a Show HN about ZenStack V1 as "DSL to define data and access rules closer to the database"

Throughout the month, we've attracted quite a few early adopters. Some of them, such as MermaidChart, have successfully launched into production. After talking with them, we realized that many individuals found ZenStack while seeking a cleaner and easier alternative to RLS.

As a result, we pivot ourselves to be a “TypeScript toolkit on top of Prisma ORM with a fine-grained Authorization layer, auto-generated type-safe APIs, and frontend hooks”.

In V2, besides the more flexible Access Control Policy support for RBAC/ABAC/PBAC/ReBAC, here are some other major features we released:

- Polymorphic Relations

- Edge support

- Using auth() in @default()

- Fine-grained Optimistic Updates

- Prisma-Like Schema Formatting

Features may be easy to forget, but stories remain. If you're curious about the stories behind these features and what we have learned, check out the blog post below:

https://zenstack.dev/blog/v2-stories

We would love to hear your opinion on the new position. What we missed? What is your unresolved pain point? https://github.com/zenstackhq/zenstack