Recipe	Difficulty	Features Used
Todo App	Beginner	Data CRUD
Blog	Beginner	Data + Auth
User Dashboard	Intermediate	Auth + Data + Storage
E-commerce	Intermediate	All features
SaaS MVP	Advanced	All + RBAC

Recipe 1: Todo App (15 minutes)

Schema

Table: todos
- title (string, required)
- completed (boolean, default: false)
- user_id (reference to users)
- created_at (datetime, auto)

Frontend

// hooks/useTodos.ts
export function useTodos() {
  return useQuery({
    queryKey: ['todos'],
    queryFn: () => bkend.data.list('todos', { sort: '-created_at' }),
  });
}

export function useCreateTodo() {
  const qc = useQueryClient();
  return useMutation({
    mutationFn: (title: string) => bkend.data.create('todos', { title, completed: false }),
    onSuccess: () => qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: ['todos'] }),
  });
}

export function useToggleTodo() {
  const qc = useQueryClient();
  return useMutation({
    mutationFn: ({ id, completed }: { id: string; completed: boolean }) =>
      bkend.data.update('todos', id, { completed: !completed }),
    onSuccess: () => qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: ['todos'] }),
  });
}

export function useDeleteTodo() {
  const qc = useQueryClient();
  return useMutation({
    mutationFn: (id: string) => bkend.data.delete('todos', id),
    onSuccess: () => qc.invalidateQueries({ queryKey: ['todos'] }),
  });
}

// components/TodoList.tsx
'use client';
import { useTodos, useCreateTodo, useToggleTodo, useDeleteTodo } from '@/hooks/useTodos';
import { useState } from 'react';

export function TodoList() {
  const [newTitle, setNewTitle] = useState('');
  const { data: todos, isLoading } = useTodos();
  const createTodo = useCreateTodo();
  const toggleTodo = useToggleTodo();
  const deleteTodo = useDeleteTodo();

  const handleAdd = (e: React.FormEvent) => {
    e.preventDefault();
    if (!newTitle.trim()) return;
    createTodo.mutate(newTitle);
    setNewTitle('');
  };

  if (isLoading) return <p>Loading...</p>;

  return (
    <div className="max-w-md mx-auto p-4">
      <h1 className="text-2xl font-bold mb-4">Todo App</h1>
      <form onSubmit={handleAdd} className="flex gap-2 mb-4">
        <input value={newTitle} onChange={(e) => setNewTitle(e.target.value)}
          placeholder="Add a todo..." className="flex-1 border rounded px-3 py-2" />
        <button type="submit" className="bg-blue-500 text-white px-4 py-2 rounded">Add</button>
      </form>
      <ul className="space-y-2">
        {todos?.map((todo: any) => (
          <li key={todo.id} className="flex items-center gap-2 p-2 border rounded">
            <input type="checkbox" checked={todo.completed}
              onChange={() => toggleTodo.mutate({ id: todo.id, completed: todo.completed })} />
            <span className={todo.completed ? 'line-through text-gray-400 flex-1' : 'flex-1'}>
              {todo.title}
            </span>
            <button onClick={() => deleteTodo.mutate(todo.id)}
              className="text-red-500 text-sm">Delete</button>
          </li>
        ))}
      </ul>
    </div>
  );
}

Recipe 2: Blog with Authentication

Schema

Table: users (built-in via bkend auth)

Table: posts
- title (string, required)
- slug (string, unique)
- body (text, required)
- status (enum: draft/published, default: draft)
- author_id (reference to users)
- created_at (datetime, auto)
- updated_at (datetime, auto)

Table: comments
- body (text, required)
- post_id (reference to posts)
- author_id (reference to users)
- created_at (datetime, auto)

Key Patterns

// Create post with auth
const { user } = useAuth();
await bkend.data.create('posts', {
  title, slug: title.toLowerCase().replace(/\s+/g, '-'),
  body, status: 'draft', author_id: user.id,
});

// List published posts (public)
const posts = await bkend.data.list('posts', { status: 'published', sort: '-created_at' });

// Get post with comments
const post = await bkend.data.get('posts', postId);
const comments = await bkend.data.list('comments', { post_id: postId, sort: 'created_at' });

Recipe 3: User Dashboard with File Upload

Key Patterns

// Profile with avatar upload
async function updateAvatar(file: File) {
  const { url } = await bkend.storage.upload(file, 'avatars');
  await bkend.data.update('users', user.id, { avatar_url: url });
}

// Dashboard stats
async function getDashboardStats(userId: string) {
  const [posts, comments] = await Promise.all([
    bkend.data.list('posts', { author_id: userId }),
    bkend.data.list('comments', { author_id: userId }),
  ]);
  return { postCount: posts.length, commentCount: comments.length };
}

Project Template

For any recipe, start with:

npx create-next-app@latest my-app --typescript --tailwind --app
cd my-app
npm install @tanstack/react-query zustand

Then:

Set up bkend client (lib/bkend.ts)
Create auth store (stores/auth-store.ts)
Add QueryClientProvider
Build features following recipe patterns

Reference

See references/bkend-patterns.md for complete API client and pattern reference.

Action	Description	Example
`list`	List all recipes	`$bkend-cookbook list`
`todo`	Build a todo app	`$bkend-cookbook todo`
`blog`	Build a blog	`$bkend-cookbook blog`

bkend-cookbook

bkend.ai Cookbook

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