Job board on React Router v8, 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
React Router v8 (framework mode) — SSR, config/file routes under app/, loaders/actions, and resource routes for API endpoints.
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).
Job board — employer companies, job postings with employment-type and status guards, a hiring-pipeline application tracker, and per-user candidate profiles.
Setup
bun add react-router react react-dom 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
Job board schema: companies, postings, applications & candidates
Companies & employersemployer tenant records owned by a Better Auth user, anchoring all postings
Job postingsindividual listings with employment-type, status, and optional salary range in cents
Applications & hiring pipelinecandidate submissions against a posting, carrying a four-stage status from applied to hired
Candidate profilesone-per-user profile row holding a headline and resume URL for applicants
Deploy targets
Decisions and compatibility
Framework mode (not data/library mode): routes live under app/, declared in app/routes.ts. API endpoints are resource routes (a route module exporting loader/action but no default component).
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.
A unique constraint on (posting_id, applicant_id) in applications enforces one application per candidate per posting — duplicate submissions are rejected at the DB layer, not the application layer.
candidate_profiles carries a unique constraint on user_id (1:1 with Better Auth's user), so upsert logic can key on it; job_postings enforces employment_type and status values via CHECK rather than pgEnum, keeping migrations additive.