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by nikolasburk 1856 days ago
This looks really cool!, congrats for the launch!

I noticed you're using Sequelize as an ORM for the Node.js version and was wondering if you evaluated other libraries for that.

I work at Prisma [1] and we're building a new kind of ORM for Node.js and TypeScript. We've also seen that many library authors (e.g. KeystoneJS, RedwoodJS, Blitz, Amplication, Wasp, ...) [2] and fullstack templates like Bedrock [3] are picking Prisma as their ORM instead of tools like Sequelize, TypeORM or lower-level libraries like knex.js.

I'm just curious to learn whether you were aware of Prisma and what made you pick Sequelize for this project in case you evaluated other options too :)

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

[2] https://www.prisma.io/blog/prisma-the-complete-orm-inw24qjea...

[3] http://bedrock.mxstbr.com/

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Thanks. While we began with Express, we intend to add support for more ORMs, so that users can pick the one they want. We did come across Prisma and we are exploring supporting it.

For now, we support MySQL, PostgreSQL and SQLite, but are also planning to add support for Mongo. Do you have Mongo/NoSQL databases on your roadmap?

It would be great to connect on a zoom - I'm the co-founder of imagine, my email is anusheel@imagine.ai

Imagine looks super cool!

Prisma has Mongo support coming really soon, and we will be speaking more about it at https://www.mongodb.com/live in July.

Other NoSQL and relational databases to follow, but we have no timeline for that yet.