I agree with that sentiment. Concatenating strings is miserable and error-prone, especially for highly dynamic queries. But there's still another step between

I agree with that sentiment. Concatenating strings is miserable and error-prone, especially for highly dynamic queries. But there's still another step between a full-blown ORM and a query builder, where you still define the models and the relations between them, but fall back to a plain query builder for constructing queries. That way, you're not dealing with plain arrays, etc., but you're still essentially writing SQL. Like Objection.js[0], which is built on Knex. [0] https://vincit.github.io/objection.js/ https://vincit.github.io/objection.js/