Neon DB is a modern, serverless Postgres platform that brings powerful cloud-native features like instant branching, autoscaling, and point-in-time recovery. It’s designed for developers who want fast, flexible, and cost-efficient relational databases—perfect for building scalable apps without managing infrastructure.
- Serverless – Only pay for what you use, with automatic scaling up and down.
- Instant Branching – Create database branches instantly for development, testing, or experiments, without affecting production.
- Point-in-Time Recovery – Restore your database to any previous state in seconds.
- Separation of Storage and Compute – Enables rapid scaling and better performance.
- Developer-Friendly – Works great with modern frameworks, CI/CD, and the Postgres tools you already know.
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Sign Up & Create a Project
- Go to neon.tech and sign up for a free account.
- Create a new project and database from the dashboard.
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Connect to Your Database
- Copy the provided connection string (Postgres-compatible).
- Use it with any PostgreSQL client, ORM, or application (e.g.,
psql, Prisma, SQLAlchemy, Hasura, etc.). - Example using
psql:psql $NEON_POSTGRES_URL
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Branching for Development
- Instantly create a branch of your production database for safe testing, migrations, or feature development.
- Branches are isolated and can be promoted or deleted anytime.
- Example using Neon’s CLI:
neon branch create my-feature-branch
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Autoscaling & Serverless
- Neon automatically scales compute resources up or down based on workload.
- You only pay for active usage—no need to manage idle servers.
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Point-in-Time Recovery
- Quickly recover your database to any previous state, ideal for testing or disaster recovery.
- Accessible via the dashboard or CLI.
- Rapid development and testing: Instantly branch your database for isolated environments.
- Production apps: Host scalable, reliable Postgres databases with minimal ops.
- Analytics and reporting: Efficiently handle workloads with separate compute for analytics branches.
- CI/CD pipelines: Use ephemeral branches for automated testing of migrations and features.
- Startups & Hackathons: Launch apps fast without worrying about database servers or scaling.
// Install pg: npm install pg
const { Client } = require('pg');
const client = new Client({
connectionString: process.env.NEON_POSTGRES_URL, // get from Neon dashboard
});
client.connect()
.then(() => console.log('Connected to Neon DB!'))
.catch(err => console.error('Connection error', err));Learn more at neon.tech