RavenDB Node.JS / TypeScript client 5.0 released

I’m very happy to announce that the TypeScript / Node.js client API for RavenDB was recently updated to 5.0. This release updates the API to support Time Series API and bulk insert. Beyond the new API and functionality, we have also put a lot of effort into the ergonomics of this release.

One of the major changes that was made was to the way you use indexes in the API. Thanks to Yawar Jamal are due, for suggesting this improvement and sending the initial PR. What does this means? Well, here is an index definition in the new version:

The actual index definition isn’t that interesting. You can see a longer explanation of exactly what I’m doing in this post. What is really interesting is that I can define this using code, no messing about with strings. This is checked by the compiler and is going to give you a similar developer experience as using Linq in .NET.

I also mentioned ergonomics, right? Let’s look at some of the other features that you now get from the client. It’s funny, because this has nothing to do with code execution, but is very important to just Getting Things Done.

Take a look at this:

Even though we are passing a string to the query, we have intellisense to assist us and warn about typos.

That applies all over the API, so you don’t really have to make an effort, It Just Works.