🙏 Give up TypeORM, in favor of … 🙏

# [ $davids.sh ] · message #137

🙏 Give up TypeORM, in favor of … 🙏

I have a lot to say about ORM in general, and especially on Node.js...

I've worked with ORM on Golang, PHP, Python, C#, so I have something to compare.

I'll start by immediately stating my position: TypeORM is utter garbage.

Why, I explain in the article:

Link to article

And further, I will write a bunch of articles on the topic of ORM, because my team and I have decided to choose a new one for all our projects and I will have something to tell you.

P.S.

Prisma is also not a gift, but definitely better than TypeORM.

#db #postgresql #mongodb #nodejs #typescript #orm

• @ Igor IT-K Malinkin · # 252

  Prism, little prism ❤️

• @ Arsen IT-K Arakelyan · # 253

  What about Bookshelf?
  It's an ORM built on top of the Knex.js query builder.

• @ [ $davids.sh ] · # 254

  I worked with it once, and now after checking the docs, I see the following issues:

  • No native TypeScript support (even Knex has it, how did they manage to...)
  • No introspection
  • No description of table fields and their types
  • Only works via Active Record

  That's enough for me to avoid using it.

  If you really want Knex, then Objection.js is better (though it has its own problems too).