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Slonik uses template strings to do this inline, safely. https://github.com/gajus/slonik

comment by Latty · 2026-02-21 · in Show HN: Pg-typesafe – Strongly typed queries for PostgreSQL and TypeScript

…fragment literals in the caller programming language, like sql`name = ${name}` in TypeScript (eg https://github.com/gajus/slonik ). These are usually thin abstraction over concatenating a `{ queryText: string[], queryArgs: T[] }`…

comment by jitl · 2025-10-05 · in Parrot – type-safe SQL in Gleam, supports SQlite, PostgreSQL and MySQL

Zod is the default validator for https://github.com/gajus/slonik . Zod alone accounts for a significant portion of the CPU time.

comment by gajus · 2025-04-12 · in ArkType: Ergonomic TS validator 100x faster than Zod

There is Slonik [1] for instance. [1] https://github.com/gajus/slonik

comment by s4i · 2024-12-06 · in Litdb – type safe SQL for JavaScript/TS

Didn’t use myself, but AFAIK slonik library is doing what you’ve described: https://github.com/gajus/slonik

comment by user432678 · 2024-09-10 · in Sqlc: Compile SQL to type-safe code

…so that you can't accidentally pass in a normal string-interpolated string. Examples: - slonik: https://github.com/gajus/slonik?tab=readme-ov-file#protectin... - postgres.js: https://github.com/porsager/postgres?tab=readme-ov-file#quer...

comment by hombre_fatal · 2024-08-10 · in PEP 750: Tag Strings for Writing Domain-Specific Languages

You can already use postgres with Slonik. https://github.com/gajus/slonik#user-content-slonik-how-are-... It is not going to be the default because it is way slower. https://github.com/gajus/slonik/actions/runs/6616647651 Test…

comment by gajus · 2023-10-23 · in PostgresJs: PostgreSQL client for Node.js and Deno

Also see: https://github.com/gajus/slonik

comment by sheaton · 2023-10-14 · in PostgresJs: PostgreSQL client for Node.js and Deno

…* FROM foo WHERE bar = \{inputParam}") which is exactly what many NodeJS libraries due, e.g. Slonik https://github.com/gajus/slonik , like sql`SELECT * FROM foo WHERE bar = ${inputParam}`;

comment by hn_throwaway_99 · 2023-09-25 · in JEP Draft: String Templates (Final)

…it's necessary to use Zod/runtime validation everywhere, but it's a nice tool to have on hand. [1] https://github.com/gajus/slonik

comment by mavbo · 2023-09-15 · in We use TypeScript not based on preference, but because we want to make money

…and accidentally one can make an SQL injection with these: https://github.com/porsager/postgres https://github.com/gajus/slonik

comment by ttfkam · 2023-06-29 · in Is ORM still an anti-pattern?

Have you tried Slonik ( https://github.com/gajus/slonik )? It won't generate types from queries automatically, but it encourages writing SQL vs. a query builder and allows type annotations of queries with Zod. Query results are validated…

comment by mavbo · 2023-05-12 · in The Epic Stack

Definitely a lot of misconceptions around how this would work. Just check out something like slonik, https://github.com/gajus/slonik , which is an excellent implementation. The example you gave actually isn't valid, because what you're…

comment by hn_throwaway_99 · 2023-03-09 · in JavaScript and TypeScript features of the last 3 years

…Template strings in TypeScript allow you to safely write SQL directly, still with type checking: https://github.com/gajus/slonik#readme

comment by hn_throwaway_99 · 2023-01-25 · in Kysely: TypeScript SQL Query Builder

…cool project but I do think query builders ARE generally an anti-pattern. I'm a huge fan of slonik, https://github.com/gajus/slonik#readme , which uses template strings for SQL and has recently come a long way with its strong typing…

comment by hn_throwaway_99 · 2023-01-25 · in Kysely: TypeScript SQL Query Builder

Slonik comes pretty close https://github.com/gajus/slonik . It does not inspect your DB schema, but has worked very well in our SQL-heavy architecture.

comment by cheeseface · 2023-01-24 · in Kysely: TypeScript SQL Query Builder

…use cases for runtime validation, namely when dealing with external inputs/databases, e.g. https://github.com/gajus/slonik#user-content-runtime-validat... Flow had [flow-runtime]( https://github.com/gajus/flow-runtime ), which was nice.…

comment by gajus · 2022-10-13 · in Hegel – An advanced static type checker for JavaScript

…want is something like slonik which is more focused on querying than relational mapping. [0]: https://github.com/gajus/slonik

comment by hardwaresofton · 2022-09-29 · in Flyweight: An ORM for SQLite

…develop Zapatos, but Slonik and pg-typed are probably better known. https://jawj.github.io/zapatos/ https://github.com/gajus/slonik https://pgtyped.vercel.app/

comment by gmac · 2022-06-28 · in SQLite or PostgreSQL? It's Complicated

I've been a huge fan of Slonik, https://github.com/gajus/slonik , which makes it easy and safe to write direct SQL queries. The author of Slonik had a good article about the downsides of query builders, previously discussed on HN, that I…

comment by hn_throwaway_99 · 2021-11-26 · in Our journey in dropping the ORM in Go

…, but a few years after I wrote that (and mostly didn't use it) I found https://github.com/gajus/slonik which was very similar and much more fleshed-out; I rolled _some_ of its concepts and patterns into sql-athame.

comment by phs2501 · 2021-08-27 · in Write an SQL query builder in 150 lines of Python

In this space but a little lighter: https://github.com/gajus/slonik

comment by hardwaresofton · 2021-08-10 · in Show HN: Write universally accessible SQL, not library-specific ORM wrapper APIs

…of your DB. Some contributors have commented they are working on something similar for Slonik, https://github.com/gajus/slonik/pull/267#issuecomment-840559...

comment by hn_throwaway_99 · 2021-06-18 · in DenoDB

…are littered with knex.raw statements. This was discussed at length in this slonik issue, https://github.com/gajus/slonik/issues/42 , with some recommendations for migrations functionality.

comment by hn_throwaway_99 · 2021-06-18 · in DenoDB

Give slonik a try. It's a very nice step up from raw drivers https://github.com/gajus/slonik

comment by indeyets · 2021-06-18 · in DenoDB

…have mistakes like SQL injections: https://gajus.medium.com/stop-using-knex-js-and-earn-30-bf41... https://github.com/gajus/slonik

comment by hn_throwaway_99 · 2021-06-18 · in DenoDB

https://github.com/gajus/slonik

comment by domlebo70 · 2021-04-21 · in Prisma – ORM for Node.js and TypeScript

…topic for a different discussion. We have a set of DAO components that access the DB using Slonik, https://github.com/gajus/slonik (overview explaining the rationale for this library is at https://medium.com/@gajus/bf410349856c ). Our app…

comment by hn_throwaway_99 · 2021-04-20 · in Node.js 16 Available Now

I like the idea and project goals. There are however gems like this in the source: https://github.com/gajus/slonik/blob/master/src/routines/exe... You can spend an hour trying to reason about the control flow of that triple try/catch…

comment by chmod775 · 2021-03-11 · in Slonik: A PostgreSQL client with strict types, detailed logging, and assertions

On a related note, I've become a gigantic fan of Slonik, https://github.com/gajus/slonik , which simultaneously (a) makes it extremely difficult to expose SQL injection attacks while (b) still letting you write SQL in a very "natural" way…

comment by hn_throwaway_99 · 2021-03-02 · in Rookie coding mistake prior to Gab hack came from site’s CTO

Specifically in Node.js, https://github.com/gajus/slonik has drastically improved the experience of writing and composing SQL queries. I am the author of Slonik.

comment by gajus · 2020-06-09 · in Prisma 2.0 – Type-safe and auto-generated database client

How is it different from Slonik? https://github.com/gajus/slonik

comment by garrybelka · 2020-05-25 · in Show HN: PgTyped – Typesafe SQL in TypeScript and Postgres

…Another one in a similar vein with strict typing and really nice SQL interpolation for Postgres: https://github.com/gajus/slonik

comment by adriancooney · 2020-05-25 · in Show HN: PgTyped – Typesafe SQL in TypeScript and Postgres

…Froala - https://www.froala.com/wysiwyg-editor SequelizeJS - https://sequelize.org/master/ Slonik - https://github.com/gajus/slonik WS - https://github.com/websockets/ws Socket.io - https://socket.io/

comment by truth_seeker · 2019-09-10 · in Running GitHub on Rails 6.0

…check out `slonik` [0]. It doesn't support migrations, but there are other tools for that [1]. [0] https://github.com/gajus/slonik [1] https://github.com/mmkal/slonik-tools

comment by lhnz · 2019-09-10 · in Running GitHub on Rails 6.0