CRM on Nuxt 4, Postgres (Neon) and Better Auth
Type-checked against the real SDKs, migration applied to a live Postgres (Neon), connection clients load-tested, then tracked for upstream drift and re-verified when it moves. How we verify
session validation runs in server components and route handlers, not at the edge
What you're getting
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.
Postgres on Neon via Drizzle ORM and the postgres-js driver.
Better Auth — self-hosted auth running inside your app against your Postgres (Drizzle adapter).
Sales CRM — companies, contacts, named pipelines, deal-stage tracking, and an append-only activity trail.
Setup
bun add nuxt vue drizzle-orm postgres better-authDATABASE_URLNeon pooled (-pooler) connection stringBETTER_AUTH_SECRETgenerate with `openssl rand -base64 32`BETTER_AUTH_URLyour app's base URLApply the schema with bunx drizzle-kit push
Initialization
Database client
Sales CRM schema: companies, contacts, pipelines, deals & activities
Companies & contactsaccount records (companies de-duped on domain) and the contacts that belong to them, with nullable company FK to support unattached leads
Pipelines & dealsnamed sales pipelines and the opportunities (deals) moving through them, each carrying a contact FK, an owner FK to Better Auth user, and amount stored as integer cents
Deal stage trackingstage column on deals enforced by CHECK constraint with an index that powers pipeline-board grouping by stage
Activity interaction logappend-only calls/emails/notes logged against a deal by a Better Auth actor, forming the per-deal audit timeline
Deploy targets
Decisions and compatibility
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`).
prepare: false is mandatory — Neon's pooled endpoint is PgBouncer in transaction mode, where server-side prepared statements break across the pool.
Drizzle is paired here (not Prisma): Prisma's prepared-statement reliance is incompatible with transaction-mode pooling.
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.
Deal stage is text + CHECK ('lead','qualified','won','lost') on the deals table — new stages ship without an ALTER TYPE migration; the idx_deal_stage index drives the pipeline board's 'deals grouped by stage' query.
activities is append-only (no updates, no deletes cascaded from deal): the per-deal timeline is always a raw log, never a mutated summary, queried via idx_activity_deal_time (deal_id, occurred_at).