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I definitely get this perspective, and often I do prefer a functional approach over a class based approach. However, in my experience using both query builders like knex and ORMs like Objection, I find the mental mapping between my code and the database much easier to keep straight when I have a class for each table, especially the way that Objection uses static properties like idColumn and relationshipMappings to represent database constraints. Others may feel differently, but it's how my brain works.
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I definitely get this perspective, and often I do prefer a functional approach over a class based approach. However, in my experience using both query builders like knex and ORMs like Objection, I find the mental mapping between my code and the database much easier to keep straight when I have a class for each table, especially the way that Objection uses static properties like
idColumnandrelationshipMappingsto represent database constraints. Others may feel differently, but it's how my brain works.