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45/100
ALIGNAI SCORE
CONFIDENCE 50.3%
Mixed Reviews
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TypeORM
TypeScript and JavaScript ORM for Node.js that works with many databases
MIXEDAI Build
Pricing
Free
Learning curve
Easy
Time to value
Immediate
BEST FORSoloSmall Team
COMMUNITY SENTIMENT
PositiveNegative
WORKS FOR

General ORM use for simple projects, Database interaction using its query builder

KEY INSIGHT

Development has stalled with many unresolved issues, making it risky for critical production use despite being simple for basic tasks.

DOESN'T WORK FOR

Production projects with complex schemas (dozens of entities/hundreds of queries), Projects requiring reliable maintenance and bug fixes

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Community Reviews

Reviews from Reddit, Product Hunt, Hacker News & AlignAI members

FAILED

I tried out an experiment with TypeORM and basic relations and things didn't work the way I'd expect at all. Looked in the issue tracker and saw many open unresolved issues.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: experiment with basic relations

MIXED

TypeORM comes to mind, and recently Zapatos made it into the frontpage and although it s new it looks like a nice simple but powerful alternative, much more close to raw SQL than TypeORM s clearly abstract layer magic sause.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: TypeScript ORM library

MIXED

I do like Prisma's type safety compared to the pure TypeScript alternatives like TypeORM and MikroORM

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: Database client (mentioned as a pure TypeScript alternative to Prisma)

FAILED

TypeORMs development has come to a halt. And many issues are not being fixed.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: ORM for TypeScript

FAILED

I've been using TypeOrm in production for a few years... My recommendation is to use something else.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: production project with dozens of entity types and hundreds of queries

FAILED

Prisma isn't exceptionally good... it's just not as bad as the alternatives; ...TypeORM...

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: testing ORMs for JS/TS

MIXED

In TypeORM, there is a query builder which forces you to put in _some_ SQL for things like WHERE a in (b, c).

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: ORM for database interaction, specifically using its query builder

WORKED

I ve worked... recently with TypeORM, both have been simple to use and generally (minus some weird things I tried to do) a pleasure.

Hacker News • HackerNews • Use case: General ORM use

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