django-migration-linter VS Knex

https://github.com/3YOURMIND/django-migration-linter running before tests in CI, with some extra stuff that only warns by default set up to error out as well, for example non-async index create/drop.

A tool I've used with Django in the past is the one: https://github.com/3YOURMIND/django-migration-linter

It helps with the problem that if you're running several application servers it's important to avoid migrations that are backwards incompatible - since if some of your application servers haven't yet updated to the latest code you could get errors when they try to run queries against the migrates database.

There's actually a Django package called django-migration-linter that can help with this by spotting migrations that could break under that condition: https://github.com/3YOURMIND/django-migration-linter

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.