Show HN: Joist, the Best ORM, Ever?

by stephenon 5/13/2024, 1:42 PMwith 1 comments

Hi HN; over the last 4 years, we've been building Joist, an ORM for TypeScript & Postgresql, that solves many of the footguns of traditional entity-based ORMs.

One of our early adopters challenged us to be less humble in our marketing, and this silly-but-serious blog post is the result. :-)

Disclaimer this post assumes a lot of familiarity with ORMs, so that it can focus on how Joist (and the JavaScript + TypeScript stack) has solved these historical issues, but the rest of the Joist docs try to be more tutorial/beginner oriented.

by floodfxon 5/13/2024, 3:34 PM

From the article - Joist provides:

- Bullet-proof N+1 prevention,

- Tracking loaded relation/subgraph state in the type system, and

- Backend reactivity, for declarative cross-entity validation rules and reactive fields.

Wow!