What does HackerNews think of sql-template-tag?

You can avoid this entirely with JavaScript's tagged template literals. Here is an example library: https://github.com/blakeembrey/sql-template-tag

Have you considered a tagged template literal sql builder, such as https://github.com/blakeembrey/sql-template-tag ? Keeps the SQL syntax so less to learn, but still offers parametrized queries.

Thankfully [0], it [1] already [2] exists. [3]

[0] https://github.com/gajus/slonik-sql-tag-raw

[1] https://github.com/felixfbecker/node-sql-template-strings

[2] https://github.com/blakeembrey/sql-template-tag

[3] https://www.npmjs.com/search?q=sql%20template

Edit: When I first read your comment, I thought you were saying that you wanted a separate library just to have the SQL template functionality.

I agree with what you're saying though.