Show HN: instant.dev - Rails-Inspired JavaScript ORM and Migrations for Postgres

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3 years ago

Hey HN! We've spent the last couple months packaging up a JavaScript ORM that we've been using for the last ~8y in production. We built it initially because Node.js was (and still is!) missing a Ruby on Rails caliber data manipulation library. We had another company we were working on so we didn't focus on releasing this as a library, though it got plenty of battle-testing in production -- over 1 billion records in a 4TB database. :)

It's heavily Rails-inspired with a bit of Django patterns for the query system, think ActiveRecord for Node.js. The command line utilities come baked in with easy model and migration generation, as well as the ability to generate endpoints for Vercel's serverless platform and deploy. We've even baked in a quick psql alias that supports SSH tunneling if your database is eg running in a VPC on AWS.

Would love to get your feedback! As I mentioned, this has been in production for nearly 8 years so we think it's ready for your production servers. That said, this incarnation of it is somewhat new (just getting it OSS-ready) so we'd appreciate feedback, testing, issues, or just general chit-chat.