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still yet to find an ActiveRecord equivalent for javascript.

I'm trying to build that:

Disclaimer docs aren't amazing yet, so looking through the examples/integration tests are the best way to see how it works.

Prisma has a few mentions in this thread; joist's differentiator is that it leans more "domain model" i.e. validation rules, derived values, and business-logic-y things being in the model.

Which is not for everyone (i.e. the ORM-less approach of the OP/kiss-orm is fine too), but if you're looking for that sort of thing...

Joist also has a novel approach for modeling the lazy-initialized collections/references of ORMs, which is historically tricky in Node/JS/TS. In Joist, all collections/references require `await` to access by default, but that gets tedious very quickly, so you can use populate hints to get a now-synchronously-accessible sub-view of the object graph.

What about this? https://github.com/typeorm/typeorm/blob/master/docs/active-r... (Forgive me if this isn't what you are looking for, not super familiar with ActiveRecord myself, just recalled seeing that yesterday!

https://mikro-orm.io/ is a much better typeorm alternative as it is actively being maintained. TypeORMs development has come to a halt. And many issues are not being fixed.

I like TypeORM but have passed on it for now because of this potential sql injection issue: https://github.com/typeorm/typeorm/issues/3740 I have passed a field to order_by() from the user in Django before. I would be more likely to use a dict now, but I shudder at the thought of accidentally creating an SQL injection bug because I expected to be protected by my ORM.

Yes, TypeORM is definitely the JavaScript answer to ActiveRecord

Can vouch for TypeORM, hopefully it's creator will pick it back up soon and get it to a stable v1.0.0!!

That's Prisma [1] for me. Coming from Django, I've found prisma even better than the Django ORM, despite not yet as complete.

[1] https://www.prisma.io/docs/understand-prisma/why-prisma

This. I haven't tried anything complex but so far Prisma 2 has just been amazing. The API is just so clean and simple.

This bills itself as 'ActiveRecord for Javascript'. Kinda relies on Graphiti's implementation of the JSON API spec. I really like Graphiti and Spraypaint though.

Sorry got ahead of myself there:

https://www.graphiti.dev/js/

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