Future of TypeORM
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We are working full-time on TypeORM for almost three years. That’s why we have such a powerful and really amazing ORM. And this time wasn't funded or sponsored by anybody except our core developers - (@pleerock and @AlexMesser). And three years is a huge amount of time and it cost us lot of resources. ----- Open source is free, but if you want a really high-quality open source with a good support, code reviews, new features, performance and bug fixes - our core developers should spend much more time on it. And we all know that time is money. TypeORM is a huge and very complex library. Ideally it requires a few full-time paid developers. Nobody is working full-time for free, you should understand that people have families, kids and they have to live on something. They simply can't be unemployment and work on TypeORM full-time. ----- Again, being a full-time is very important for this project because developing a good orm is a very complex task as it takes a lot of time to maintain it, develop a new features, review pull requests, answer people questions, maintain all this infrastructure. Without being a full-time we loose in all those areas and processes are very slow. To understand scales, I'll provide you an example. In last few months I've got 1000+ github notifications from TypeORM repository. They include github issues and pull requests. Now imagine how much time it requires to: read each issue review its code clone attached repository and test it (if it was atta
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I just want to add that this Open Source project is maybe one of the best open source projects I have ever seen around. You guys are doing a really amazing job!!!
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I just want to add that this Open Source project is maybe one of the best open s
I just want to add that this Open Source project is maybe one of the best open source projects I have ever seen around. You guys are doing a really amazing job!!!
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Resolved in typeorm/typeorm GitHub issue #3267. Community reactions: 151 upvotes.
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