Cookbook

Real-world recipes for using atemporal in production. Each recipe is a self-contained pattern you can copy and adapt.

Recipes

Topic	Use case
REST input validation	Validate body.createdAt in Express / Fastify
Prisma	Map a Prisma DateTime column to a wrapper
Drizzle	Map a Drizzle timestamp column
React Server Components	Format dates on the server in a Next.js app
Cloudflare Workers	Cold-start, small bundle, no Node APIs
Structured logging	Emit atemporal error codes to your log stack
Microservice timezones	Storing UTC, rendering locally
Audit log timestamps	Append-only tamper-evident log rows
Business hours scheduling	Compute "next business day at 09:00 local"
i18n formatting	Locale-aware date/time rendering

All recipes assume import atemporal from 'atemporal' and use the 8 official plugins where applicable.