Sequelize

Raised as a usability problem by 7 people on Hacker News over 10 years (2016–2025), in 6 threads.

People raised many different problems with Sequelize, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 7 complaints

Described as a painfully bad library that developers should throw out2025-10-14
Sequelize code is extremely verbose to write compared with Django2025-10-03
Poor documentation makes connecting to named MSSQL instances hard to figure out2022-02-13
Options silently fail to work, and dropping tables with foreign keys breaks2021-04-21
Sequelize documentation is pretty bad for some features2020-05-24
Hard to get running; documentation lacking, hours spent finding small details2016-06-14
Hard to get queries beyond simple select-where statements; the syntax is awkward and time-consuming2016-02-18