typegoose VS mongoose-tsgen

So we started researching the state-of-the-art and discovered several libraries that could fit our requirements. The best candidates we were able to find were Mongoose, Typegoose, and TypeORM. Mongoose is a well-known Node.js library for MongoDB that implements the Data Mapper pattern and lets developers define schemas to constraint the data models associated with their domain objects. However, Mongoose works with concrete data models, which in a complex domain model scenario results in query logic duplication. Typegoose is a type-safe Mongoose wrapper that allows schema constraint declaration at domain object field level via JS decorators. Unfortunately, those very decorators leak persistence logic into the domain model. Besides, Typegoose also implements the Data Mapper pattern, thus sharing the same drawbacks of Mongoose. TypeORM, on another hand, implements the Repository pattern and provides some basic support for MongoDB. However, TypeORM presents several limitations compared to Mongoose.

This is where Typegoose comes in, which is basically a wrapper to create TypeScript templates in an easy way. I bet that at some point you've already tried TypeORM and most likely liked working with classes and decorators to define the fields of your entities.

There's so many more cool features and utilities with typegoose, such as creating static and instance methods directly inside of the class, that I would advise you to check out at the official docs!

Sry for asking, can't you use https://github.com/typegoose/typegoose for all of the typing?

I found this: https://github.com/typegoose/typegoose but I feel like the API is not very readable.

If your library is written in TypeScript, you can automatically generate both JavaScript code (to support all users) and TypeScript declaration files (which add TypeScript types to JavaScript code). You will almost never need to export TypeScript files in your package, unless all of your users will use TypeScript (i.e. for something like typegoose).

I’d recommend not to use it. I migrated from normal mongoose typescript setup to typegoose few month ago and now I hate every moment of using it. I’m going to migrate to https://github.com/francescov1/mongoose-tsgen