PostgresJs: The Fastest full featured PostgreSQL client for Node.js and Deno

Have to say, if you like to do bare metal SQL, using the nice features of Postgres, working with this lib is a total Joy! No “fancy” and bleeding abstractions like something like Prisma, not convoluted type annotations like other TS libs, no, just plain SQL statements in the best JavaScript way of doing it. I discovered learning to do Postgres a couple years ago, after getting sick of trying to hack Prisma, tried out several others, and after a…

Hi everyone. A bit more than two years ago I released the first version of Postgres.js. A fully featured PostgreSQL driver for Node.js written as a learning experience out of curiosity and annoyance with the current options. It greatly outperformed the alternatives[1] using pipelining and prepared statements, while providing a much better development experience safe from SQL injections. Since then I've been busy building things using it, now running in production, and although quite delayed I'm so happy to release…

I bit more than a month ago my curiosity got the better of me, and I took a deep dive in the Postgres protocol docs[1]. I was fascinated by it's simplicity, and since I've been wrapping current node modules pg or pg-promise in a tagged template function for easier use, for a long time, I thought it would be interesting to see how it would be to build a client from scratch. The result ended up being a 0 dependency…