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Products that do what Joist, the Best ORM, Ever? does

Hi HN; over the last 4 years, we've been building Joist, an ORM for TypeScript & Postgresql, that solves many of the footguns of traditional entity-based ORMs. One of our early adopters challenged us to be less humble in our marketing, and this silly-but-serious blog post is the result. :-) Disclaimer this post assumes a lot of familiarity with ORMs, so that it can focus on how Joist (and the JavaScript + TypeScript stack) has solved these historical issues, but the rest of the Joist docs try to be more tutorial/beginner oriented.

1. 1OF
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   2020 · github.com

2. 2GI
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   2016 · github.com

3. 3NO
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   TypeORM▲81

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   2017

5. 5AO
   An ORM-Like JavaScript Client for PostgREST▲14

   2020 · github.com

6. 6MO
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   2019 · github.com

7. 7AN
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   2020 · github.com

8. 8
   Jsblocks▲97

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   2020 · kretes.dev

10. 10TS
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    2024 · litdb.dev

11. 11AO
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    2016 · github.com

12. 12QI
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    2017 · quicktype.io

13. 13SD
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    2019 · github.com

14. 14KA
    Kallax a PostgreSQL Typesafe ORM for the Go Language▲17

    2017 · github.com

15. 15WF
    WebAssembly from the Ground Up – learn WASM by building a compiler▲7

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16. 16RV
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    2017 · github.com

17. 17AO
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18. 18AW
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    2024 · callosum.dev

20. 20FS
    Fastest, Simplest, Fully-Fledged ORM in Go, Supports PostgreSQL and MySQL▲6

    2016 · github.com

21. 21TN
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22. 22FN
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    2016 · github.com

23. 23OS
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24. 24AT
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