Bookshelf Facade

Modern JavaScript wrapping Bookshelf Models

DO NOT USE: This is currently just a proof of concept!

What is this?

So in my opinion Bookshelf is the best ORM available for Node apps today. It was inspired by and heavily modeled after the best ORM in my opinion Laravel's Eloquent ORM. The goal with this package is to abstract a lot of the warts of it being bound to legacy Node and give it a nice clean API to build your apps using modern style stuff.

What does it do differently?

It comes pre packed with a new Model base class that has static methods built right into it for working with creating and fetching models, and when a model its fetched it returns a masked model that has a better api for working with your data.

Examples

Defining a Model:

To get started all you have to do is create a new instance of the facade, very similarly to how you do it normally with Bookshelf.

db.ts:

import createKnex from 'knex';
import createFacade from 'bookshelf-facade';

const knex = createKnex({...});
const facade = createFacade(knex);

export {
    Model: facade.Model
}

user.ts:

import { Model } from './db';

export default class User extends Model {}

Now anywhere you want to use the User model you can.