Tell Echo JS: I'm writing an ORM from scratch

pianoroy 4165 days ago. link 3 points ▲ ▼

Just a comment that may be helpful: One of JavaScript's greatest strengths (and especially so in ES6 and beyond) is its strong support for functional patterns. One thing I appreciate about MS's Entity Framework is the strong support for functional patterns (a la LINQ) -- one can build a query by stringing together a series of higher-order functions, and the DB query is only executed when the expression is enumerated.

Any ORM that supports functional patterns (especially higher-order functions with delayed query execution/enumeration) will have my interest.

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olalonde 4164 days ago. link 1 point ▲ ▼

Thanks for the feedback. I'm actually in the process of refactoring bits of the library to make better use of functional patterns. I believe the library already does what you describe, at least for "where" statements [0]. I actually wrote a standalone Node.js module to help me with delayed query execution [1].

[0] https://github.com/olalonde/worm/blob/master/test/level1flat/getAll-where.js#L94

[1] https://github.com/olalonde/expressionist