Ready to build

Take a step back and look at what you've set up:

• Tables — forms and submissions, defined with Drizzle and applied with Atlas
• Validation — Zod schemas that catch bad input before it reaches the database
• Models — Form and Submission, clean wrappers with create, findByID, newest, update, and delete

Your data layer is ready. The database knows what shape the data should be. The validation layer knows what good input looks like. The models know how to read and write every table.

But nobody has called them yet. You haven't built any pages that create forms, collect submissions, or show results. The plumbing is in place — the faucets aren't installed.

That's exactly where the next chapter picks up. You'll build the form creator, share it with a public link, watch submissions land in your database, and deploy the whole thing live.

Save your progress

1. Open Source Control in VS Code (⌘⇧G · Ctrl+Shift+G )
2. Commit your changes with a message like data layer for form builder
3. Click Sync to push your latest work

Fresh start for Chapter 5

Your AI chat has been accumulating context since you started this chapter — every prompt, every file it read, every response. You might see the context window filling up.

Start Chapter 5 in a new chat. Your code is saved in the project — the AI can read it fresh. A new conversation means the AI starts with full capacity instead of working with a crowded history.

This is a good habit: start a new chat at natural break points, like between chapters.