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Last Updated: 3/9/2026


Running on Deno

Kysely doesn’t include drivers for Deno, but you can still use Kysely as a query builder or implement your own driver:

// We use jsdeliver to get Kysely from npm. import { DummyDriver, Generated, Kysely, PostgresAdapter, PostgresIntrospector, PostgresQueryCompiler, } from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/kysely/dist/esm/index.js' interface Person { id: Generated<number> first_name: string last_name: string | null } interface Database { person: Person } const db = new Kysely<Database>({ dialect: { createAdapter() { return new PostgresAdapter() }, createDriver() { // You need a driver to be able to execute queries. In this example // we use the dummy driver that never does anything. return new DummyDriver() }, createIntrospector(db: Kysely<unknown>) { return new PostgresIntrospector(db) }, createQueryCompiler() { return new PostgresQueryCompiler() }, }, }) const query = db.selectFrom('person').select('id') const sql = query.compile() console.log(sql.sql)