Verse ORM

Verse is a modern, fast, object/relational mapper for TypeScript inspired by Entity Framework Core. It features LINQ-style querying, unit of work updates, and a powerful convention-based mapping system. It supports SQLite, Postgres, MySQL, SQL Server and Oracle databases.

Some of its key features are:

• Type safety: Define your model using TypeScript and get full type safety when querying and modifying your data.
• Performance: Designed to be fast and efficient, with minimal overhead.
• Powerful modelling: Create entities with relationships, inheritance, identity generation strategies, value objects, data converters and more.
• Rich querying: Supports complex queries, including eager-loading, navigation properties, joins, sub-queries, aggregations, grouping etc. The generated SQL is concise and easy to read.
• Unit of work: Supports the unit of work pattern, allowing you to easily batch multiple changes and commit them in a single transaction.
• Migrations: Supports database migrations, allowing you to manage your database schema in a versioned and repeatable way.
• Reliability: Verse is designed to be reliable and robust, with a strong focus on testing and quality.
• Runtime only: No external DSLs or code generation required.

The Getting Started guide is available at getting started.

Reference and API documentation is available at verse documentation.

Verse is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License.

Ask questions on the Verse Discord server.

Installation

Verse is available on npm.

npm i @operativa/verse

Install the driver package corresponding to your target database, one of:

npm i @operativa/verse-sqlite
npm i @operativa/verse-postgres
npm i @operativa/verse-mysql
npm i @operativa/verse-mssql
npm i @operativa/verse-oracle

Basic usage

The following code demonstrates basic usage of Verse with SQLite.

import { verse } from "@operativa/verse";
import { sqlite } from "@operativa/verse-sqlite";
import { boolean, entity, int, string } from "@operativa/verse/model/builder";
import { PrettyConsoleLogger } from "@operativa/verse/utils/logging";

// Define a simple entity to represent a Todo item.

const Todo = entity(
  {
    id: int(),
    title: string(),
    completed: boolean(),
  },
  builder => {
    builder.data(
      { title: "Do the dishes", completed: false },
      { title: "Walk the dog", completed: false }
    );
  }
);

// Setup our Verse instance.

const db = verse({
  config: {
    driver: sqlite("todos.sqlite"),
    logger: new PrettyConsoleLogger(),
  },
  model: {
    entities: {
      todos: Todo,
    },
  },
});

// Create a clean database schema. In a real app, this would be done using migrations.

await db.database.recreate();

// Query all the todos from the database.

const todos = await db.from.todos.toArray();

todos.forEach(todo => {
  console.log(`${todo.id}: ${todo.title} (completed: ${todo.completed})`);
});

// Query todos about dogs.

const query = db.from.todos.where(todo => todo.title.like("%dog%"));

for await (const todo of query) {
  console.log(`${todo.id}: ${todo.title} (completed: ${todo.completed})`);
}

// Modify a todo and save the changes.

const uow = db.uow();

const todo = await uow.todos
  .where(todo => todo.title === "Do the dishes")
  .single();

todo.completed = true;

await uow.commit();

// Now we can remove the todo from the database.

uow.todos.remove(todo);

await uow.commit();

Samples

The following steps will get you up and running with the Verse samples: In the verse root directory run these commands:

pnpm install: bootstraps the entire project, symlinks all dependencies for cross-component development and builds all components.

turbo build: run build for all component packages.

You can then navigate to a sample and run it with:

cd apps/basic/
pnpm dev

Contributing

We welcome community pull requests for bug fixes, enhancements, and documentation. See How to contribute for more information.

Getting support

If you encounter a bug or would like to request a feature, submit an issue.

See also

• Documentation
• Code of conduct