100% agree - I recommend really reviewing whether you actually need an ORM at all. In a big enterprise application, maybe yes you save some time and increase consistency but when you are building anything small to medium size I really think its overkill. You can end up spending a lot of time building out your representations instead of just getting on with the actual task.
For me, ORM is a nice to have - I used it in Sails as it was nicely integrated at the time and my application was in-front of a database with 80 unique entities. However, an ORM can force you down a route of using some pretty crazy population methods or you end up breaking out into native code execution because the ORM can't handle the joins or representations you are trying to achieve. When you start to hit this point, for me I have to start questioning why I'm using an ORM in the first place and the benefits it is giving me.
I think my next project will start without and wait for the pay back to become more apparent before jumping into an ORM.
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100% agree - I recommend really reviewing whether you actually need an ORM at all. In a big enterprise application, maybe yes you save some time and increase consistency but when you are building anything small to medium size I really think its overkill. You can end up spending a lot of time building out your representations instead of just getting on with the actual task.
For me, ORM is a nice to have - I used it in Sails as it was nicely integrated at the time and my application was in-front of a database with 80 unique entities. However, an ORM can force you down a route of using some pretty crazy population methods or you end up breaking out into native code execution because the ORM can't handle the joins or representations you are trying to achieve. When you start to hit this point, for me I have to start questioning why I'm using an ORM in the first place and the benefits it is giving me.
I think my next project will start without and wait for the pay back to become more apparent before jumping into an ORM.