amplication VS Knex

Go to https://amplication.com.

The application used in this demonstration was generated through Amplication, which allows you to generate production-ready backend services - reliably, securely, and consistently.

Setting up Auth0 authentication in your Amplication application is easy. You can use the Auth0 plugin to add the required dependencies and configuration files to your application. The steps are as follows:

Additionally, you can use tools like Amplication to bootstrap your Node.js applications easily and focus on these parallel processing techniques instead of wasting time on (re)building all the boilerplate code for your Node.js services.

In addition, Prisma is supported by microservice code generation tools like Amplication. Prisma plugs directly into the code generated by Amplication. By doing so, you can utilize Prisma as an ORM layer for your databases and generate microservice code with ease in just a few clicks.

We've prepped dozens of issues spanning various domains like bug fixes, UI/UX improvements, documentation enhancements, and more.

Amplication, is a powerful open-source backend development tool engineered to streamline and accelerate web application creation. It offers a user-friendly interface and a comprehensive feature set, making it a valuable resource for developers and organizations aiming to swiftly develop robust, scalable applications while conserving time and resources.

In this example, I will create 3 Node.js services (shipping, notification, and courier) using Amplication, add traces to all services, and show how to analyze trace data using Jaeger.

Amplication lets you auto-generate Node.js code for your microservices, enabling you to build high-quality apps with high-quality code that take extra precautions for the issues discussed above to ensure that your app will not cause any memory leaks (well, at least not in the boilerplate code we generate. The rest... is up to you 😊).

If you're eager to explore microservices architecture and seeking an excellent entry point, consider Amplication. Amplication is an open-source, user-friendly backend generation platform that simplifies the process of crafting resilient and scalable microservices applications 20x faster. With a large and growing library of plugins, you have the freedom to use exactly the tools and technologies you need for each of your microservices.

Knex.js

AdonisJS core team has created/maintains Lucid. It is a SQL query builder, and an Active Record ORM built on top of Knex.

Now, why not use an ORM? I've seen performance issues too many times with ORMs. I prefer writing my own SQL to avoid surprises. After all, I know the database schema and writing code for a specific purpose very often leads to better performance than generic code. ORMs have to support all kinds of database schemas. I only have to support mine. Having successfully used Knex.js in NodeJS (a popular query builder) in the past, I know writing SQL queries myself is not hard and provides very good performance.

Given the dynamic nature of the schema, we employ Knex, a query builder, for database access.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/knex - 779 issues

# related: https://github.com/knex/knex/issues/2354

This article will be focused on a security issue that I found in Knex and how to mitigate it, but I'll also talk briefly about the social aspects of this problem.

SQL is an old, irregular language to work with, but it is better known than HCL and SQL already has it's own Pulumi/CDK in the form of every ORM with introspection (like Javascript's Prisma, Python's Django, Go's XO etc) and QueryBuilder (LINQ, Knex, etc) in whatever programming language you prefer. You probably already know it.