The AdonisJS Blog

May 05, 2026

How I'm teaching AI to write AdonisJS the way I would

AI doesn't just need to know about the framework. It needs to be told how to engineer with it. Here's where I've landed, and what's going into Flow.

Harminder Virk

Apr 09, 2026

How we re-designed redirects in AdonisJS

New redirect APIs in AdonisJS. Open redirect prevention, session-based previous URL, intended URL after login, and configurable query string forwarding.

Harminder Virk

Mar 18, 2026

Introducing Persona and Permission

We released Persona and Permission, the first two packages under AdonisJS Plus. Learn how they work, why they exist as packages, and how they fit into the Kit components story

Harminder Virk

Feb 25, 2026

AdonisJS v7 is here

AdonisJS v7 introduces end-to-end type safety, new starter kits with authentication, zero-config OpenTelemetry, and a rewritten developer experience. Available now

Harminder Virk

Jan 17, 2026

AdonisJS v7 is feature-complete and entering final validation

AdonisJS v7 has reached its final form with stable APIs, revamped documentation, and a small breaking changes surface. Insiders can start building today.

Harminder Virk

Jan 08, 2026

Batteries-included frameworks in the era of AI

Built a production checkout flow in one evening with Claude. It worked because the framework had already made the hard decisions. AI filled in the rest.

Harminder Virk

Dec 20, 2025

Introducing OpenTelemetry support in AdonisJS

Your application is slow. But where exactly? Is it the database query? The external API call? That one service that sometimes takes forever? Without proper observability, you're left guessing.

julien-ripouteau

Dec 05, 2025

Supporting Platform-Native Response and ReadableStream in AdonisJS

We've added support for returning platform-native Response objects and ReadableStream instances directly from your route handlers.

Harminder Virk

Nov 13, 2025

AdonisJS v7: State of Things

We have made over 20 releases targeting AdonisJS v7 since last month. Many of these are bug fixes, small improvements , and internal APIs needed by the framework core and official packages.

Harminder Virk

Oct 24, 2025

Building from the Base Up: Rethinking Starter Kits in AdonisJS

We have recently updated the Hypermedia Starter Kit for AdonisJS v7 . This release includes a set of base components — such as buttons, form fields, avatars, and layouts — along with a simple signup and login system to help you get started quickly.

Harminder Virk

Sep 26, 2025

10 Years of AdonisJS — A Personal Reflection and What’s Next

AdonisJS has just completed 10 years. A full decade of writing code, fixing bugs, rewriting parts of the framework, and slowly shaping it into something developers can trust and enjoy using.

Harminder Virk

Jun 23, 2025

Roadmap to AdonisJS 7

It has been a while since we published our last article. We've been cooking 'undercover' for quite some time, and we're excited to finally share with you the roadmap to AdonisJS 7.

romainlanz

Oct 27, 2024

Tuyau - An E2E client for your AdonisJS APIs

We are super excited to announce the first release of Tuyau . Tuyau is a collection of libraries that provides you with a type-safe request client, type-safe Inertia Link helpers, and an Open-API spec generator.

julien-ripouteau

Sep 01, 2024

Upgrading ESLint and TypeScript setup

In this post, we will upgrade the tooling config of an AdonisJS application to use the latest version of ESLint, move to the maintained fork of ts-node, and update the prettier config to format Edge templates.

Harminder Virk

Jun 04, 2024

Send real-time updates with Transmit

Transmit is a new package in the AdonisJS family. Its goal is to provide an opinionated way of using Server-Sent Events (SSE).

romainlanz

May 09, 2024

Updates from April 2024

As we enter May, it's a great opportunity to reflect on the recent enhancements and updates made to AdonisJS last month.

julien-ripouteau

Apr 23, 2024

Hot module replacement (HMR) in AdonisJS

We're thrilled to announce that HMR is now available in AdonisJS! Before anything, let me quickly explain what this enables.

julien-ripouteau

Apr 01, 2024

Updates from March 2024

Github now recognizes the syntax of Edge templates and provides syntax highlighting for them. This contribution is made by Liam Potter (a long-time AdonisJS user) via this PR .

Harminder Virk

Mar 05, 2024

Announcing Inertia adapter for AdonisJS

We are pleased to announce that the Inertia adapter for AdonisJS is now available as an experimental version with full support for SSR.

julien-ripouteau

Feb 29, 2024

Updates from February 2024

It's been a month since the major release of AdonisJS v6, and we had a lot going on during this month. Some of the work has been shipped, and some are under the experimental phase and will be released soon.

Harminder Virk

Feb 17, 2024

Integrating Kysely with the Auth session guard

In the last post, we setup Kysely inside an AdonisJS application with commands to make, run, and rollback migrations. In this post, we will take a step ahead and integrate Kysely with the AdonisJS auth package.

Harminder Virk

Feb 16, 2024

Future plans for AdonisJS v6

We have just released AdonisJS v6 with many new features and improvements. This release was a big milestone, as we have been working on it for the last year. We have shipped a lot of new improvements and features in this release, but we have a lot more in the pipeline.

julien-ripouteau

Feb 02, 2024

Setting up Kysely inside an AdonisJS project

AdonisJS comes pre-configured with our home-grown ORM Lucid. While Lucid shines on many fronts, it does not have a type-safe API for constructing SQL queries.

Harminder Virk

Jan 31, 2024

Use TSX for your template engine

Seven years ago, we decided to build Edge, our templating engine. We created it to ensure longevity, speed, and extensibility.

romainlanz

Oct 09, 2023

AdonisJS v6 - One Step Closer to the Release

On July 24th, we announced the availability of AdonisJS 6 in its 'alpha state' exclusively for our sponsors to explore the framework and provide valuable feedback.

romainlanz

Jul 04, 2023

What to Expect of AdonisJS 6?

If you have been following us on Twitter, you might have seen us talking about AdonisJS v6 - “A new major version of the AdonisJS framework”. We've spent four years in the AdonisJS v5 era, and it's time to move to the AdonisJS v6 era with some fresh ideas.

romainlanz

Jan 24, 2024

Announcing AdonisJS v6

Alright, sit tight, as this will be a long article. The work for v6 started with the goal of moving to ESM and improving the IoC container to be simple and have fewer responsibilities.

Harminder Virk