potygen VS pgtyped

I really hope the community converges on just one common solution to this as I see soo many different approaches to the same “there’s no great modular ORM for typescript” problem.

I myself went the route of “lets just have raw sql queries” but extract distinct and specific types from them automatically- https://github.com/potygen/potygen

Great thing is that it handles sql of any complexity - CTEs, views, nested selects/joins/unions/custom functions you name it. All tools you can use to encapsulate logic in sql itself (what ORM were supposed to be for) and then have it be statically validated at compile time thus saving you the need for righting all those trivial unit tests that was also one of the key benefits of ORMs.

Admittedly if there was something like LINQ I would probably not have ventured into building potygen, but I’m glad I did as I learned so much about SQL as a language and what it had to offer - its silly how much logic I used to rely on writing in code that could easily be handled by sql in a much mode concise way.

There is an implementation of SQL that operates on a table shaped type, entirely at type level. For your amusement: https://github.com/codemix/ts-sql

There are a bunch of more practical takes that codegen types from your database and generate types for your queries, eg: https://github.com/adelsz/pgtyped

To me the second approach seems much more pragmatic because you don’t need to run a SQL parser in a fairly potato interpreter on every build

ORMs suck, but raw SQL embedded in your code sucks too.

This might be good time to plug my TypeScript non-ORM: https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/.

I should say I also like what I've seen of https://kysely.dev/ and https://pgtyped.dev/.

Thank you for suggestions they helped me finding what I was looking for. I will either pick kysely or https://pgtyped.dev/, but first I will do some tests. Thanks!

Cool. How does this compare to SafeQL, PgTyped, and Postgres language server ?

I would instead rely on code generation like https://github.com/adelsz/pgtyped, because the embedded type-safe SQL will never fully cover all the features of vanilla SQL, for example Common Table Expression (CTE), window functions etc.

There's pgtyped, which I believe does almost the same as sqlc

https://github.com/adelsz/pgtyped

For Postgres there is https://github.com/adelsz/pgtyped, sounds pretty much like what you describe?

Avoiding the cost of learning EDSL that many Haskell DB libraries provide, I found out that only postgresql-typed and postgresql-simple allow to write only raw SQL queries easily. As I extensively use pgtyped for production Node.js application, I am thinking about using postgresql-typed. While I could find many resources for postgresql-simple, the same cannot be said try for postgresql-typed.

I would highly recommend trying out pgTyped if you want typesafe queries with postgres. It's fantastic!