[Rapzid]

TypeORM is a step in the right direction for JS ORMs bit it's like 1/8th of the way there IMHO. A nearly fully typed ORM is possible now with Typescript and of course proxy's are out now.. TypeORM was doing too much ADHOC string building under the covers as well. I believe a SQL AST is the way to go. It can be transformed and compiled to database specific SQL allowing for things like predicate push down, optimization, and a sane way to implement db specific optimizations and extensions.

[nikolasburk]

I really like your point about type-safety! I think one major issue with the current ORMs in the Node.js/TypeScript ecosystem (Sequelize, TypeORM, ...) is that they're not fully type-safe. As you mention, TypeORM is definitely a step into the right direction here, but the way how it leverages the TypeScript type system isn't where it could be. I work at Prisma where we're building [Photon.js][1], an auto-generated database client with a fully type-safe data access API.

[1][https://github.com/prisma/photonjs]