[josephg]

I've been enjoying sql-template-strings lately, which build on ES6 tagged template literals so you get the best of both worlds:

    dbquery(sql`select * from friends where user_id = ${userId}`)

https://www.npmjs.com/package/sql-template-strings

[Klathmon]

(not sure why you are getting downvoted, but...)

Template strings are the one ES2015 feature I still really haven't used much. And this almost seems like a textbook use case for them! I'll need to give this a shot in a toy project and see if I can't get my own version hacked together for support with my favorite database interface library in node (pg-promise)