kiss-orm
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orm library
SHOW HN2020
How HN took it
8 positive, 10 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 5 critical, out of 24 comments about the project. Thread score +0.05.
Idea: 5 for, 4 againstDesign: 2 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 0 againstPerformance: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Clean, simple approach keeping full SQL power
From 3 comments
Thank you for creating Kiss ORM. I have even created a HackerNews account to be able to comment on it. I have been searching for this type of ORM in Typescript for a while. I…
holgerw on HNAs a never-ORM guy I really like what this is trying to do. It seems like the best of both worlds. Kudos!
gigatexal on HNLove to see more options in this space! I've made a switch from traditional ORM (TypeORM and Sequelize) to a similar "light ORM", Pgtyped, and never looked back since. Like in…
golergka on HN
Tagged template safe from injection
From 1 comment
``` sql"SOME SQL"; ``` This looks to be a "tagged template": https://basarat.gitbook.io/typescript/future-javascript/template-strings. I'm a TS user but hadn't seen that feature…
CoffeeDregs on HN
Objections
Lacks eager loading, causing N+1 queries for relationships
From 1 comment
It seems you cannot load relationships for a collection of entities easily without N+1 queries, unless I'm missing something. Based on the many-to-many section of the docs…
Dragory on HN
Not really an ORM, more a safe query serializer
From 1 comment
I actually built something almost exactly like this internally. This is awesome. But, its a far cry to call this an ORM. Its just a safe query serializer. ORM takes an object and…
nhumrich on HN
No migration support out of the box
From 1 comment
All these things fall short the moment you need real "production" features, such as reliable migrations (writing them by hand? no thanks. Outsourcing to another library like…
midrus on HN
Requests
Eager loading of relationships
From 1 comment
It seems you cannot load relationships for a collection of entities easily without N+1 queries, unless I'm missing something. Based on the many-to-many section of the docs…
Dragory on HN
Changeset-style validation like Ecto
From 1 comment
Thank you for creating Kiss ORM. I have even created a HackerNews account to be able to comment on it. I have been searching for this type of ORM in Typescript for a while. I…
holgerw on HN
Questions
How migrations handle column renames and type changes without data loss
From 1 comment
Thanks. I do not have experience with Room, but I usually prefer to control and know what is happening in my schema. For example, if your schema is automatically handled, how do…
Seb-C on HN
Alternatives named
Prisma
From 1 comment
All these things fall short the moment you need real "production" features, such as reliable migrations (writing them by hand? no thanks. Outsourcing to another library like…
midrus on HN
Knex / Objection.js
From 1 comment
I started using Objection.js and Knex last year and I think it might be the best ORM I've used on any platform. There's no way I'm going back to writing raw queries. If I did…
wayneftw on HN
Pgtyped
From 1 comment
Love to see more options in this space! I've made a switch from traditional ORM (TypeORM and Sequelize) to a similar "light ORM", Pgtyped, and never looked back since. Like in…
golergka on HN
Ecto (Elixir)
From 1 comment
Thank you for creating Kiss ORM. I have even created a HackerNews account to be able to comment on it. I have been searching for this type of ORM in Typescript for a while. I…
holgerw on HN
postgres.js library
From 1 comment
the template syntax reminds me of an other postgres libary https://github.com/porsager/postgres
LorenzA on HN