--- title: Repository Pattern with Typescript and Node.js | daily.dev description: In Node.js you probably interact with the database (MongoDB, Postgres, etc) via ORM. But sometimes typical ORM does not cover our needs. Repository pattern... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/repository-pattern-with-typescript-and-node-js-llwgw87yb twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Repository Pattern with Typescript and Node.js | daily.dev og:description: In Node.js you probably interact with the database (MongoDB, Postgres, etc) via ORM. But sometimes typical ORM does not cover our needs. Repository pattern... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/repository-pattern-with-typescript-and-node-js-llwgw87yb og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/LlwGW87YB.png og:image:alt: Repository Pattern with Typescript and Node.js og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Repository Pattern with Typescript and Node.js **[DEV](https://daily.dev/sources/devto)** · 6 min read · 13 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary In Node.js you probably interact with the database (MongoDB, Postgres, etc) via ORM. But sometimes typical ORM does not cover our needs. Repository pattern will give to us this abstract Data Layer to interact with any database. Knex is a cross between ORM and pure SQL queries. It provides excellent migrations API with TypeScript support. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: --- Tags: [#nodejs](https://daily.dev/tags/nodejs), [#typescript](https://daily.dev/tags/typescript) [View this post on daily.dev](https://daily.dev/posts/repository-pattern-with-typescript-and-node-js-llwgw87yb) ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180},"sameAs":["https://twitter.com/dailydotdev","https://github.com/dailydotdev","https://www.linkedin.com/company/daily-dev-ltd"]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https://daily.dev/#website","url":"https://daily.dev","name":"daily.dev","publisher":{"@id":"https://daily.dev/#organization"},"potentialAction":{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https://daily.dev/search?q={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}}]} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"TechArticle","headline":"Repository Pattern with Typescript and Node.js","url":"https://daily.dev/posts/repository-pattern-with-typescript-and-node-js-llwgw87yb","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://daily.dev/posts/repository-pattern-with-typescript-and-node-js-llwgw87yb"},"datePublished":"2021-10-25T16:41:14.247Z","dateModified":"2021-10-25T16:41:14.248Z","description":"In Node.js you probably interact with the database (MongoDB, Postgres, etc) via ORM. But sometimes typical ORM does not cover our needs. Repository pattern...","image":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/ae017ecfe0aded27439f50ef86a7f75d","thumbnailUrl":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/f_auto,q_auto/v1/posts/ae017ecfe0aded27439f50ef86a7f75d","isAccessibleForFree":true,"articleSection":"DEV","inLanguage":"en","publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"daily.dev","url":"https://daily.dev","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://daily.dev/apple-touch-icon.png","width":180,"height":180}},"author":{"@type":"Organization","name":"DEV","logo":"https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/t_logo,f_auto/v1/logos/devto","url":"https://daily.dev/sources/devto"},"commentCount":0,"discussionUrl":"https://daily.dev/posts/repository-pattern-with-typescript-and-node-js-llwgw87yb","interactionStatistic":[{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"LikeAction"},"userInteractionCount":13},{"@type":"InteractionCounter","interactionType":{"@type":"CommentAction"},"userInteractionCount":0}],"keywords":"nodejs,typescript","timeRequired":"PT6M"} {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https://daily.dev"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"DEV","item":"https://daily.dev/sources/devto"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Repository Pattern with Typescript and Node.js"}]} ```