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silicon is a MongoDB driver. It wraps the official driver provided by MongoDB found here on NPM. silicon simplifies many processes by providing a type-safe object-oriented wrapper of the MongoDB driver. Also included in silicon is a powerful type-safe query driver.

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Example

Create an interface for what types your class contains.

interface UserProps { name: string; age: number; }

Create a class by extending SiObject<T extends object> and use your interface.

class User extends SiObject<UserProps> {

    public constructor() { super("table-name"); }
	
}

Populate the props object on a new instance of your class by using the props property on your class. It will contain all the saved properties for your object.

const user: User = new User();

user.props.name = "Elijah";
user.props.age = 20;

Communicate with the database from your object by calling methods it contains.

await user.create();
await user.update();
await user.update("name");
await user.fetch();
await user.delete();

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Features

Prototyping

Like the example above, you can very easily create an object and use it without having to directly talk to a database. To view more information on how you can do prototyping, view the object page.

Queries

You can make type-safe queries using the SiQuery class. Do helpful things like count(), find(), exists() and much more. View the query page for more information.

Type-Safety

Everything is type-safe when you program in TypeScript. Your class properties, and even queries are all using type checking. So you cannot query for a key that does not exist, try and get a value for an invalid property name, and much more.

About

Language

All of silicon is written in TypeScript. If you do not know how to use TypeScript don't worry. It is completely compatible with JavaScript.

Why?

I started this package to use in all my different projects. This is sort of a V2 to a package I wrote in 2018. I took everything I learned from the original package and used it. I named it hydrogen because I think element names are cool and hydrogen is kind of a building block for different bonds.

Author/Maintainer

My name is Elijah Cobb. I am a computer science student at Michigan Technological University. I have worked for a few start ups, one right out of high school. I am now the back-end developer for a few small projects and so this package is sort of the base of all my projects. When I need a feature I add it to this package.