Generate (oRPC)

Deprecated, and removed in 5.0

Use drzl generate instead:

drzl generate --schema src/db/schema.ts --only orpc

That emits the same files, byte for byte, and it can reach everything this command cannot: table and column filters, naming, formatting, importExtension, shared validation schemas, database injection, a schema path read from your drizzle-kit config, and, because it goes through the write plan, --check, --dry-run and per-file drift verdicts.

This command keeps working until 5.0 and prints one line on stderr naming the replacement. The line goes through the output layer, so --quiet and --json both drop it.

The split it comes from was chronological rather than principled: generate:orpc shipped when oRPC was the only generator, generate:trpc arrived with the tRPC generator, and every generator added since added no command at all. --only names all of them.

Quickly generate oRPC routers without a config.

Usage:

pnpm

pnpm dlx @drzl/cli generate:orpc <schema> -o src/api --template standard --includeRelations

npm

npx @drzl/cli generate:orpc <schema> -o src/api --template standard --includeRelations

yarn

yarn dlx @drzl/cli generate:orpc <schema> -o src/api --template standard --includeRelations

bun

bunx @drzl/cli generate:orpc <schema> -o src/api --template standard --includeRelations

Options:

• -o, --outDir <dir> (default src/api)
• --template <name> (default standard): can be standard or a custom path
• --includeRelations: include relation endpoints
• --json: one JSON document on stdout
• -q, --quiet: silent on success, errors still on stderr

Exit codes

0 when it generated, and 1 when the schema is missing or could not be imported. It used to exit 0 for a schema that was never read, having written a placeholder.orpc.ts whose contents read "No tables detected in analysis": the command reported success and a CI step guarding the generated tree passed. See Output & exit codes.

--json

{
  "ok": true,
  "command": "generate:orpc",
  "exitCode": 0,
  "generators": [{ "kind": "orpc", "files": ["/abs/path/users.ts"] }]
}