schemats VS reflect-metadata

:::note When using remote APIs, we often have the possibility to generate the types automatically from a JSON schema for REST APIs, from protobuf files for gRPC-based APIs, from a database schema, etc. You might even be using an external API through an SDK that already provides you with all types. In such cases, the creation of specialized Error classes is not mandatory. However, it might still be a good idea to do so to provide application-specific errors rather than bubbling up 3rd-party low-level errors. For such cases, the upcoming Ecma TC39 proposal for Error Cause is useful as it allows to chain errors. Polyfills exist: Pony Cause or error-cause. :::

Using a library such as that one https://github.com/SweetIQ/schemats

Second, TypeScript 5.0 cannot emit decorator metadata. Subsequently, it doesn’t integrate with the Reflect API and won’t work with the reflect-metadata npm package.

Database columns will be mapped to domain object properties using decorators. This will include relationships and enum types. reflect-metadata stores metadata about the classes and properties. Most of the work is a simple map for each class, renaming db column properties to domain model properties and vice versa. Reflect.defineProperty holds a list of field metadata on the target class. This is where more database ORM logic could live in the future such as column type, length, etc. A base domain model entity will use this metadata to map the models appropriately.