Comment by poxrud

I've used Knex, ActiveRecord and many other ORM's and query builders. At some point, beyond basic queries you start wasting time coming up with SQL statements and then having to convert them to your ORM/builder's syntax. I've reached the point now where it's just easier to stick with writing SQL and having a library that removes the possibility of sql injections. My current stack is postgres.js and dbmate for migrations.