CHAPTER 12
Knex and Bookshelf
The report of my death was an exaggeration.
—Samuel Langhorne Clemens (Mark Twain)
In this chapter, we will explore two libraries that work together to ease many of the difficulties that Node.js developers often encounter when working with relational databases. The first, Knex, provides a flexible and consistent interface for interacting with several well-known SQL platforms such as MySQL and PostgreSQL. The second, Bookshelf, builds on this foundation by providing developers with a powerful object-relational mapping (ORM) library that simplifies the process of modeling the entities that comprise an application’s ...
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