NodeJS ActiveRecord

Demo

TBD asciinema

Features

• Elegant api (Inspired by Rails ActiveRecord and Laravel Eloquent)
• Uses convention over configuration
• Declarative model definition (scopes, relations, validations etc.)
• Model validation
• Transactions (based on async hooks, so you dont need to wrap your code into callback)
• Based on knex.js (so you have all power of knex query builder)
• Yaml fixtures for seeding test data and using it in tests
• Cascade saving?
• Finite state machine included
• Easy polymorphic relations

Installation

npm install @jougene/noar

Interactive usage

You dont need to create some example for your own. Clone repository, run npm install And use on of existing examples from directory ./examples

For example run:

npm run examples:payments:repl

And work with example models:

• User, UserPersonal, Payment

noar#> await User.find(1)
noar#> await User.all()
noar#> await User.first()
noar#> user = await User.create({ name: 'test', email: '[email protected]' })
noar#> await Payment.new().with('user')
noar#> await Payment.with('user').charged()

Model definition

Super simple model

const Model = require('@jougene/noar')

class User extends Model {
  static table = 'users' // dont really need, by default it is pluralized form of model name.
}

With some default values

const Model = require('@jougene/noar')

class User extends Model {
  static table = 'users'

  static defaults = { status: 'new' }
}

Relations definition

For now there is 3 types of relations:

• hasOne
• hasMany
• belongsTo (inverted of hasMany)

Imagine you develop some system handling payments.
So you have at least two models: User and Payment
User has many payments and one payment belongs only to one user
So your models should look like this

class User extends Model {
  static table = 'users'

  static get relations () {
    return {
      payments: { hasMany: Payment },
    }
  }
}

class Payment extends Model {
  static table = 'payments'

  static get relations () {
    return {
      user: { belongsTo: User }
    }
  }
}

Creating models

• With constructor and save() method

const user = new User({ name: 'Ivan', email: '[email protected]' })

await user.save()

• With static create

await User.create({ name: 'Ivan', email: '[email protected]' })

Queries

await User.all()

await User.first()

await User.find(42)

await User.where({ status: new })

Queries with relations

If you want to get some model with related objects you can use static with method of model

const userWithPayments = await User.with('payments').first()

Scopes

Very often you want to have some predefined queries, for example for statuses

• await User.where({ status: 'registered' })
• await User.where({ status: 'wait_for_email' })

For this case you can use model scopes:

class User extends Model {
  static table = 'users'

  static scopes = {
    registered: (qb) => qb.where({ status: 'registered' }),
    waitForEmail: (qb) => qb.where({ status: 'wait_for_email' }),
  }
}

And instead of always writing await User.where({ status: 'registered' })
Do this with scopes await User.registered() caused the same result

Transactions

TBD

await Transaction.start()

... code

Enhancements

TBD Add all models to your custom repl

Noar.augmentRepl(repl.Context)