Nick & KBall sit down with the brilliant Stephen Haberman to discuss all things ORMs! 💻🔍

From the advantages and disadvantages of ORMs in general, to delving into the intricacies of his innovative project Joist, which brings a fresh, idiomatic, ActiveRecord-esque approach to TypeScript. 🚀

So sit back, relax, and let’s dive deep into the world of ORMs with the experts!

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Featuring:

• Stephen Haberman – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website
• Nick Nisi – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Kevin Ball – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, Website

Show Notes:

• TypeScript: Documentation - Mapped Types
• Hello from Joist | Joist
• TypeORM - Amazing ORM for TypeScript and JavaScript (ES7, ES6, ES5). Supports MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, SQLite, MS SQL Server, Oracle, WebSQL databases. Works in NodeJS, Browser, Ionic, Cordova and Electron platforms.
• Active Record Basics — Ruby on Rails Guides
• graphql/dataloader: DataLoader is a generic utility to be used as part of your application’s data fetching layer to provide a consistent API over various backends and reduce requests to those backends via batching and caching.
• facebook/Haxl: A Haskell library that simplifies access to remote data, such as databases or web-based services.
• Working with Entity Manager | MikroORM
• Object-Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science
• kysely-org/kysely: A type-safe typescript SQL query builder
• Validation Rules | Joist
• Derived Fields | Joist
• The Streaming Database | Materialize
• PostgreSQL: The world’s most advanced open source database
• PostgreSQL: Documentation: 15: 41.3. Materialized Views
• Joist Slack

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!