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It might be a good idea to focus on the use of template strings for safe and handy SQL generation instead of introducing too many opinionated ORM concepts.

If one had to, i'd separate these things in different libraries and let the developer opt in to what he needs.

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Thankfully [0], it [1] already [2] exists. [3]

[0] https://github.com/gajus/slonik-sql-tag-raw

[1] https://github.com/felixfbecker/node-sql-template-strings

[2] https://github.com/blakeembrey/sql-template-tag

[3] https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=sql%20template

Edit: When I first read your comment, I thought you were saying that you wanted a separate library just to have the SQL template functionality.

I agree with what you're saying though.

That is something I seriously considered, but I just did not want to bother with multiple packages and repositories, especially for a repository class that is about 150 lines of code.

The repository class that I provide is a very basic and handy abstraction for the 4 basic CRUD operations, but ultimately the goal is to write your own queries and repositories.

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