This is common misunderstanding. Tagged templates in js allow you to write safe, injection free sql templates, tsql does exactly that. Performance is better i

This is common misunderstanding. Tagged templates in js allow you to write safe, injection free sql templates, tsql does exactly that. Performance is better if anything, but irrelevant - you're talking about sql rendering performance, which is several orders of magnitude lower than invoking query? You should double check it. See examples of usage. We use it for mssql but same principles apply to other vendors. Mssql has many interesting things in its dialect that can't be expressed in orm. With templates you simply write sql and aid yourself with functional combinators for complex statements. It works really well.