Fluorite.js

Fluorite is a lightweight ORM based on Knex.js query builder. It features promise based interface, provides transactions support, bulk updating and deleting, and support for one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many relations.

Requirements

• node 8+

Installation

npm install fluorite

Configuration

First of all you'll need a copy of knex.js query builder to be configured. Next, you'll need to create a database representing your domain model, and then create models.

const knex = require('knex')({
  client: 'sqlite3',
  connection: {
    filename: './db.sqlite3',
  },
});

await knex.schema.createTable('users', (table) => {
  table.increments();
  table.string('name');
  table.number('age').unsigned();
});

await knex.schema.createTable('posts', (table) => {
  table.increments();
  table.string('content');
  table.integer('user_id').unsigned().references('users.id');
});

const fluorite = require('fluorite')(knex);

class User extends fluorite.Model {
  static table = 'users';
  
  posts() {
    return this.hasMany(Post);
  }
}

class Post extends fluorite.Model {
  static table = 'posts';
  
  author() {
    return this.belongsTo(User);
  }
}

You should use the fluorite instance returned throughout your library because it creates a connection pool for the current database.

Basic actions

Creating objects

To create an model object, instantiate it with object representing attributes and then call save().

const user = new User({ name: 'John Doe', age: 28 });

await user.save();

Updating objects

To save changes to an object that is already in the database, call object's method save().

user.set('age', 29);
await user.save();

You also can also pass an object with attributes to set method:

user.set({ age: 29, name: 'Bob Doe' });
await user.save();

Or shorthand 'set and update':

await user.save({ age: 29, name: 'Bob Doe' });

Deleting objects

To delete object from database use method remove().

await user.remove();

Querying

Querying multiple objects

Each Model has objects property that by default returns new MultipleRowsQuery object that can be used to retrieve or bulk update group of objects.

Retrieving all objects

To retrieve all objects use async/await or then promise syntax on the query:

const users = await User.objects();
// or
User.objects().then(users => console.log(users));

You can also use experimental asyncInterator syntax to iterate over database rows:

for await (const user of User.objects()) {
  console.log(user.get('name'));
}

Filtering objects

To filter query result use method filter() passing to it object with attributes for refining.

const men = await User.objects().filter({ gender: 'male' });

By default used = operator for comparing. But you alter this behavior. Just add double underscore and operator name after property name (example: age__gt).

Supported operators:

• eq evaluates to =
• ne evaluates to !=
• gt evaluates to >
• gte evaluates to >=
• lt evaluates to <
• lte evaluates to <=
• in evaluates to IN
• like evaluates to LIKE

const adults = await User.objects().filter({ age__gte: 18 });
const users = await User.objects().filter({ id__in: [1, 2, 3] });
const irish = await User.objects().filter({ name__like: 'Mac%' });

Chaining filters

const adultFemales = await User.objects
  .filter({ age__gte: 18 })
  .filter({ gender: 'female' });

All filters are immutable. Each time you refine your criteria you get new copy of query.

All filters are lazy. It means that query will run only when you call then or iterate over query.

Limits and Offsets

To limit amount of objects to be returned use limit(). You could also use offset() to specify offset for objects query.

const firstFiveUsers = await User.objects().limit(5);
const nextFiveUsers = await User.objects().limit(5).offset(5);

Retrieve single object

There are three different ways to retrieve single object from database.

1. If you want to retrieve single object using primary key:

const user = await User.find(5);

2. If you expect to retrieve only single row:

const user = await User.objects().single({ name: 'John Doe' });

It will fail with User.IntegrityError if SQL statement returned more than one row.

3. If you want to get only first row in multi-row statement:

const user = await User.objects().first({ name: 'John Doe' });

If object matching your criteria does not exist Model.NotFoundError will be thrown.

Transactions

Use of transactions is very simple:

import { fluorite } from 'fluorite';

await fluorite.transaction(async () => {
  const user = await User.find(10);
  await user.save({ name: 'John Doe' });
});

Nested transactions

You can nest transactions as many as your database supports.