[whofw]

Curious about your thoughts on TypeORM. Have you used it at scale at all? I rebuilt the API portion of an app using it a few months ago and instantly ran into issues with things like relationships and slightly more complex queries. I know it is an ORM and isn't suitable for every use case and definitely not super-complex queries, but it seemed very limited and unstable.

Honestly, I don't like any of the Node ORMs out there, especially when you compare them to more mature projects like Rails' ActiveRecord or Laravel's Eloquent.

[abrkn]

I've been using TypeOrm in production for a few years in a project with dozens of entity types and hundreds of queries. My recommendation is to use something else. Anyone know of an alternative?

[yann510]

Oh wow that is not reassuring at all, I'll look around for an alternative.

[yann510]

I haven't used typeorm for any real world projet yet. Although when I tried using the mongo driver, literally nothing worked. I also ran into problems from the generated migrations where I would get errors when trying to run them.

Even with these encountered problems, I'm still willing to give it a try for my upcoming project. I'll probably write an article on this if things go bad.

For sure, this is less mature then the others out there, but I think it has a bright future as it has a nice syntax and cool features.

[nahtnam]

Check out Prisma. It generates lot more complex types and supports relationships pretty well

[whofw]

I've been really interested in checking out Primsa, but I was a little concerned about putting an extra layer between the database and the app. I should give it another look.

[yann510]

I will definitely check this out, thanks for sharing!

[nikolasburk]

Nikolas from the Prisma team here :) let me know if you have any questions, always happy to help! (You can ping me on the Prisma Slack [1], I'm `@nikolasburk` there as well).

Also note that we've just opened up an early access program for Prisma Migrate [2] (which enables schema and data migrations), would love to hear your thoughts on our approach!

[1] https://slack.prisma.io

[2] https://www.notion.so/prismaio/Public-Documentation-for-Pris...

[yann510]

Awesome, will definitely check that out!

[Gehinnn]

I cannot recommend it. It has a bug on sqlite that swaps the arguments randomly. This is super bad.

For my next project, I will check out Mikro-Orm.

[yann510]

Thanks, I will check this out!