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E-commerce store on Nuxt 4, MySQL 8 and Better Auth

verified 2026-07-15nuxt4.4.8mysql23.22.6postgres3.4.9better-auth1.6.23@neondatabase/serverless1.1.0

Type-checked against the real SDKs, migration applied to a live MySQL 8, connection clients load-tested, then tracked for upstream drift and re-verified when it moves. How we verify

request path
Browserrequest
fetch
Nuxt 4routing + proxy
verify
Better Authsession
query
MySQL 8pooled

session validation runs in server components and route handlers, not at the edge

What you're getting

Nuxt 4

Nuxt 4 (framework mode) — full-stack Vue SSR: client under app/ (Vite), server under server/ (Nitro), API as server/api/*.post.ts Nitro route handlers.

MySQL 8

MySQL 8 via Drizzle ORM and the mysql2 driver.

Better Auth

Better Auth — self-hosted auth running inside your app against your Postgres (Drizzle adapter).

E-commerce store

E-commerce storefront — product catalog with per-SKU variants, guest-compatible carts, and price-snapshotting orders.

Setup

bun add nuxt vue drizzle-orm mysql2 better-auth
DATABASE_URLMySQL connection string (mysql://…)
BETTER_AUTH_SECRETgenerate with `openssl rand -base64 32`
BETTER_AUTH_URLyour app's base URL

Apply the schema with bunx drizzle-kit push

Initialization

Database client

server/lib/db.ts
import { drizzle } from "drizzle-orm/mysql2";
import mysql from "mysql2/promise";

// ponytail: single module-level pool; the runtime + mysql2's pool handle concurrency,
// so no globalThis singleton dance needed.
const pool = mysql.createPool(process.env.DATABASE_URL!);

export const db = drizzle({ client: pool });
import { boolean, mysqlTable, text, timestamp, varchar } from "drizzle-orm/mysql-core";

export const user = mysqlTable("user", {
  id: varchar("id", { length: 255 }).primaryKey(),
  name: text("name").notNull(),
  email: varchar("email", { length: 255 }).notNull().unique(),
  emailVerified: boolean("email_verified").notNull().default(false),
  image: text("image"),
  createdAt: timestamp("created_at").notNull().defaultNow(),
  updatedAt: timestamp("updated_at").notNull().defaultNow(),
});

export const session = mysqlTable("session", {
  id: varchar("id", { length: 255 }).primaryKey(),
  expiresAt: timestamp("expires_at").notNull(),
  token: varchar("token", { length: 255 }).notNull().unique(),
  createdAt: timestamp("created_at").notNull().defaultNow(),
  updatedAt: timestamp("updated_at").notNull(),
  ipAddress: text("ip_address"),
  userAgent: text("user_agent"),
  userId: varchar("user_id", { length: 255 })
    .notNull()
    .references(() => user.id, { onDelete: "cascade" }),
});

export const account = mysqlTable("account", {
  id: varchar("id", { length: 255 }).primaryKey(),
  accountId: text("account_id").notNull(),
  providerId: text("provider_id").notNull(),
  userId: varchar("user_id", { length: 255 })
    .notNull()
    .references(() => user.id, { onDelete: "cascade" }),
  accessToken: text("access_token"),
  refreshToken: text("refresh_token"),
  idToken: text("id_token"),
  accessTokenExpiresAt: timestamp("access_token_expires_at"),
  refreshTokenExpiresAt: timestamp("refresh_token_expires_at"),
  scope: text("scope"),
  password: text("password"),
  createdAt: timestamp("created_at").notNull().defaultNow(),
  updatedAt: timestamp("updated_at").notNull(),
});

export const verification = mysqlTable("verification", {
  id: varchar("id", { length: 255 }).primaryKey(),
  identifier: text("identifier").notNull(),
  value: text("value").notNull(),
  expiresAt: timestamp("expires_at").notNull(),
  createdAt: timestamp("created_at").notNull().defaultNow(),
  updatedAt: timestamp("updated_at").notNull().defaultNow(),
});
// Better Auth instance (self-hosted, Nuxt 4).
import { betterAuth } from "better-auth";
import { drizzleAdapter } from "better-auth/adapters/drizzle";
// Reuse the SAME postgres-js/Drizzle client the db slice exported in
// server/lib/db.ts — Better Auth shares the pooled `DATABASE_URL` connection.
// Server code lives under server/ (Nitro); reach it via Nuxt's `~~` rootDir alias.
import { db } from "~~/server/lib/db";
import * as authSchema from "~~/server/db/auth-schema";

export const auth = betterAuth({
  // Drizzle adapter over the shared client. The schema is passed HERE (not into
  // drizzle()) — it is the only consumer that needs it, so the db client stays
  // schema-less. ponytail: do NOT enable experimental.joins; it is the one option
  // that would make the adapter reach into db._.fullSchema.
  // ponytail: usePlural stays false (the default) — with it true Better Auth would
  // look for `sessions`/`accounts` and could bind to the analytics/ledger app-type tables.
  database: drizzleAdapter(db, { provider: "mysql", schema: authSchema }),
  // ponytail: email+password is the shortest real auth that works out of
  // the box — add socialProviders / plugins here when the app needs them.
  emailAndPassword: { enabled: true },
  secret: process.env.BETTER_AUTH_SECRET,
  baseURL: process.env.BETTER_AUTH_URL,
});

export type Session = typeof auth.$Infer.Session;
// Better Auth mounted as a Nitro catch-all route. auth.handler is framework-
// agnostic — (Request) => Promise<Response> — and toWebRequest adapts the H3
// event into a web Request. The `[...all]` param catches every /api/auth/*
// sub-path Better Auth routes internally.
// ponytail: Nuxt AUTO-IMPORTS defineEventHandler/toWebRequest from Nitro/H3 at
// runtime; we import them EXPLICITLY from h3 (Nitro's engine, a nuxt dep) so this
// handler type-checks under standalone tsc — the one idiom trade for verifiability.
import { defineEventHandler, toWebRequest } from "h3";
import { auth } from "~~/lib/auth";

export default defineEventHandler((event) => auth.handler(toWebRequest(event)));
// Vue/Nuxt client binding. better-auth/vue exposes the framework-appropriate client
// (signIn / signUp / useSession as Vue refs) — the Vue analog of the React client.
import { createAuthClient } from "better-auth/vue";

export const authClient = createAuthClient();
// Session gate — the Nuxt analog of Next's Edge proxy / RR8's requireAuth. A Nitro
// server middleware runs on every SSR/API request; guard the app surface and do the
// REAL server-side session check (like RR8 — stronger than Next's cookie-existence peek).
// ponytail: this guards SSR loads + direct hits + API — the true security boundary. For
// client-side SPA navigation add an app/middleware/*.ts route middleware (authored with
// Nuxt auto-imports; NOT tsc-gated, since plain tsc can't resolve them — spec §6).
// Explicit h3 imports so this type-checks standalone (see the handler note above).
import { defineEventHandler, getRequestURL, sendRedirect, toWebRequest } from "h3";
import { auth } from "~~/lib/auth";

export default defineEventHandler(async (event) => {
  const { pathname } = getRequestURL(event);
  // ponytail: guard the SaaS app surface; widen the prefixes per app-type.
  if (!pathname.startsWith("/dashboard") && !pathname.startsWith("/settings")) return;
  const session = await auth.api.getSession({ headers: toWebRequest(event).headers });
  if (!session) return sendRedirect(event, "/sign-in", 302);
});

E-commerce schema: product catalog, carts & orders

Product catalog & variants

products (display unit) and product_variants (buyable SKUs carrying price_cents and inventory_qty)

Cart & checkout

carts (nullable user_id for guest shoppers) and cart_items (one row per variant per cart, quantity-bumped on re-add)

Orders & line items

orders (captured totalCents + status walk) and order_items (frozen sku + unitPriceCents snapshot, variantId set-null on delete)

src/db/schema.ts
// === file: server/db/schema.ts ===
import { relations, sql } from "drizzle-orm";
import {
  check,
  index,
  int,
  mysqlTable,
  text,
  timestamp,
  unique,
  varchar,
} from "drizzle-orm/mysql-core";
// Better Auth owns identity; we only reference its `user` table by id.
import { user } from "./auth-schema";

export type OrderStatus = "pending" | "paid" | "shipped" | "cancelled";

/** Catalog product — the marketing/display unit. Money + stock live on the
 *  variant below, never here, so a product can have many priced SKUs. */
export const products = mysqlTable(
  "products",
  {
    id: varchar("id", { length: 36 }).primaryKey(),
    slug: varchar("slug", { length: 255 }).notNull().unique(),
    name: text("name").notNull(),
    description: text("description"),
    createdAt: timestamp("created_at").notNull().defaultNow(),
  },
  (t) => [index("idx_product_slug").on(t.slug)],
);

/** A buyable SKU under a product. Price (integer cents) and inventory live here
 *  because that's what a customer actually adds to a cart and pays for. */
export const productVariants = mysqlTable(
  "product_variants",
  {
    id: varchar("id", { length: 36 }).primaryKey(),
    productId: varchar("product_id", { length: 36 })
      .notNull()
      .references(() => products.id, { onDelete: "cascade" }),
    sku: varchar("sku", { length: 255 }).notNull().unique(),
    name: text("name").notNull(), // e.g. "Large / Black"
    // Money as integer cents — no float money in the catalog.
    priceCents: int("price_cents").notNull().default(0),
    inventoryQty: int("inventory_qty").notNull().default(0),
    createdAt: timestamp("created_at").notNull().defaultNow(),
  },
  (t) => [index("idx_variant_product").on(t.productId)],
);

/** One open cart per shopper. userId is nullable so guests can shop before they
 *  authenticate; on login the app reassigns the guest cart to user.id. */
export const carts = mysqlTable(
  "carts",
  {
    id: varchar("id", { length: 36 }).primaryKey(),
    // Better Auth's user.id is text — match it as varchar(255). Nullable: a guest
    // cart has no user yet.
    userId: varchar("user_id", { length: 255 }).references(() => user.id, { onDelete: "cascade" }),
    createdAt: timestamp("created_at").notNull().defaultNow(),
  },
  (t) => [index("idx_cart_user").on(t.userId)],
);

/** A variant + quantity in a cart. The composite unique keeps one row per
 *  variant per cart (the app bumps quantity instead of inserting duplicates). */
export const cartItems = mysqlTable(
  "cart_items",
  {
    id: varchar("id", { length: 36 }).primaryKey(),
    cartId: varchar("cart_id", { length: 36 })
      .notNull()
      .references(() => carts.id, { onDelete: "cascade" }),
    variantId: varchar("variant_id", { length: 36 })
      .notNull()
      .references(() => productVariants.id, { onDelete: "cascade" }),
    quantity: int("quantity").notNull().default(1),
  },
  (t) => [
    unique("cart_items_cart_variant_unique").on(t.cartId, t.variantId),
    index("idx_cart_item_cart").on(t.cartId),
  ],
);

/** A placed order. totalCents is the captured total at checkout; status walks
 *  the fulfilment states. userId is nullable to allow guest checkout. */
export const orders = mysqlTable(
  "orders",
  {
    id: varchar("id", { length: 36 }).primaryKey(),
    userId: varchar("user_id", { length: 255 }).references(() => user.id, { onDelete: "set null" }),
    status: varchar("status", { length: 32 }).$type<OrderStatus>().notNull().default("pending"),
    totalCents: int("total_cents").notNull().default(0),
    // ponytail: opaque payment-provider id (Stripe/etc.) — no provider FK needed.
    providerPaymentId: text("provider_payment_id"),
    createdAt: timestamp("created_at").notNull().defaultNow(),
  },
  (t) => [
    index("idx_order_user").on(t.userId),
    index("idx_order_status").on(t.status),
    check(
      "orders_status_check",
      sql`${t.status} in ('pending','paid','shipped','cancelled')`,
    ),
  ],
);

/** Order line item. Snapshots unitPriceCents (and the SKU string) at purchase
 *  time so re-pricing or deleting a variant never rewrites order history — the
 *  variant FK is set null on delete, the snapshot stays. */
export const orderItems = mysqlTable(
  "order_items",
  {
    id: varchar("id", { length: 36 }).primaryKey(),
    orderId: varchar("order_id", { length: 36 })
      .notNull()
      .references(() => orders.id, { onDelete: "cascade" }),
    // Keep the line even if the catalog variant is later removed.
    variantId: varchar("variant_id", { length: 36 }).references(() => productVariants.id, {
      onDelete: "set null",
    }),
    // Frozen at checkout — the SKU and price as they were when bought.
    sku: text("sku").notNull(),
    unitPriceCents: int("unit_price_cents").notNull(),
    quantity: int("quantity").notNull().default(1),
  },
  (t) => [
    // Drives the "line items for this order" lookup.
    index("idx_order_item_order").on(t.orderId),
  ],
);

export const productsRelations = relations(products, ({ many }) => ({
  variants: many(productVariants),
}));

export const productVariantsRelations = relations(
  productVariants,
  ({ one, many }) => ({
    product: one(products, {
      fields: [productVariants.productId],
      references: [products.id],
    }),
    cartItems: many(cartItems),
    orderItems: many(orderItems),
  }),
);

export const cartsRelations = relations(carts, ({ one, many }) => ({
  user: one(user, { fields: [carts.userId], references: [user.id] }),
  items: many(cartItems),
}));

export const cartItemsRelations = relations(cartItems, ({ one }) => ({
  cart: one(carts, { fields: [cartItems.cartId], references: [carts.id] }),
  variant: one(productVariants, {
    fields: [cartItems.variantId],
    references: [productVariants.id],
  }),
}));

export const ordersRelations = relations(orders, ({ one, many }) => ({
  user: one(user, { fields: [orders.userId], references: [user.id] }),
  items: many(orderItems),
}));

export const orderItemsRelations = relations(orderItems, ({ one }) => ({
  order: one(orders, { fields: [orderItems.orderId], references: [orders.id] }),
  variant: one(productVariants, {
    fields: [orderItems.variantId],
    references: [productVariants.id],
  }),
}));

Deploy targets

✓ The right DB client for where you deploy: load-tested with concurrent queries against a live database. Edge needs the HTTP driver (no TCP); serverless needs a tiny pool.
src/lib/db.ts
import { drizzle } from "drizzle-orm/mysql2";
import mysql from "mysql2/promise";

// Serverless: a small pool per short-lived instance — many instances × a big pool exhausts MySQL.
export const pool = mysql.createPool({ uri: process.env.DATABASE_URL!, connectionLimit: 2 });
export const db = drizzle({ client: pool });
import { drizzle } from "drizzle-orm/mysql2";
import mysql from "mysql2/promise";

// Long-running process: a real, reused pool (mysql2 manages idle recycling).
export const pool = mysql.createPool({ uri: process.env.DATABASE_URL!, connectionLimit: 10 });
export const db = drizzle({ client: pool });
import { drizzle } from "drizzle-orm/planetscale-serverless";
import { Client } from "@planetscale/database";

// Edge/Workers have NO TCP sockets, so mysql2 cannot run here. PlanetScale's HTTP driver
// speaks MySQL over fetch — the client that works on Workers (the MySQL analog of Neon's HTTP driver).
const client = new Client({ url: process.env.DATABASE_URL! });
export const db = drizzle({ client });

Decisions and compatibility

note

Client/server split: the DB client, Drizzle schema, records, and webhooks are server-side (server/). The `@/` alias is the client root (app/); server code reaches shared modules via Nuxt's `~~` rootDir alias (e.g. `~~/server/db/schema`).

note

mysql2's pool multiplexes connections; drizzle-orm/mysql2 wraps it. One module-level pool is right for a serverless/edge app — the runtime and the pool handle concurrency.

note

MySQL has no row-level security: multi-tenant isolation is enforced in application code via the forOrg helper (src/lib/tenant.ts), not by the database. See the tenant-scoping section on SaaS pages.

note

Self-hosted: Better Auth owns the user/session/account/verification tables. This stack emits them (db/auth-schema.ts) and hands them to the Drizzle adapter, so app-type schemas can foreign-key `user` directly.

note

Money is stored as integer cents on product_variants (price_cents) and snapshotted onto order_items (unit_price_cents) at checkout — repricing or deleting a variant never rewrites order history.

note

cart_items carries a composite unique on (cart_id, variant_id) so the app bumps quantity rather than inserting duplicate rows; orders.status is a text + CHECK column (pending/paid/shipped/cancelled) to avoid ALTER TYPE migrations.

caveat

MySQL provides no row-level security. On MySQL, multi-tenant isolation is APP-ENFORCED via the forOrg helper (src/lib/tenant.ts), not database-enforced like Postgres RLS. Every org-scoped query MUST go through forOrg — a missed query leaks across tenants. Postgres cells enforce this in the database itself (RLS), so it holds even for a query that forgets to scope.