slonik-tools VS pgtyped

This is cool. It is very similar to what https://github.com/mmkal/slonik-tools/tree/master/packages/typegen

Prisma isn't alone with this approach. pgTyped and slonik together with slonik-tools give you the same "zero-cost" type safety for your database queries. The main difference to Prisma is that they only support type safety for raw SQL queries, which works great if that's your preferred way of interacting with your database.

Lately though I've been using slonik (and @slonik/migrator) for lighter setups -- it very much gets out of your way so if you want to do some simple queries really quickly and don't want any ceremony it's a nice light option.

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!