3 posts tagged with "typescript"

If you've built a TypeScript backend in the last few years, you've probably used Prisma. It earned its place as the default choice — a clean schema language, an intuitive query API, and type safety that felt almost magical at the time.

But the TypeScript ORM space has quietly matured. Drizzle emerged as a serious alternative for developers who felt Prisma was too opinionated. And ZenStack v3 just completed a full rewrite that positions it not just as an ORM, but as a full-stack data layer.

Three tools, three distinct bets on what "great database access" means in 2026. This post breaks them down so you can pick the right one for your project.

Polymorphism Is the Key To Open-Closed Principle​

The three fundamental pillars of Object-Oriented Programming(OOP) are Encapsulation, Inheritance, and Polymorphism. Polymorphism is likely the least-mentioned concept, possibly because this term is not frequently used in daily life. However, it is actually the most important one because it is the key to achieving compliance with the Open-Closed Principle (OCP) in OOP.

Fading of API​

I previously wrote a post about the history of APIs:

A Brief History of API: RPC, REST, GraphQL, tRPC

I still believe that GraphQL is the most efficient solution for a big project with separate or multiple front-end and back-end teams. However, after my partner and I left our last company, it was mainly just the two of us working on the full-stack project. Therefore, we prefer to leverage the "integrated" APIs of full-stack frameworks like getServerSideProps, loader, and load functions (I bet at least you know one of them 😄). When necessary, we will use tRPC as a complementary. The overall experience is quite neat as you almost forget about API design and implementation.