@serdnam/drizzle-orm-utilities

Miscellaneous helper functions and type utilities for Drizzle ORM.

Disclaimer: This package is an independent community project and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or maintained by the Drizzle team.

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Requirements

• Node.js >=18.0.0
• drizzle-orm ^1.0.0-beta.22 (peer dependency)

Installation

npm install @serdnam/drizzle-orm-utilities

drizzle-orm must be installed separately as a peer dependency:

npm install drizzle-orm

Utilities

jsonbBuildObject

Constructs a PostgreSQL jsonb_build_object(...) expression with full TypeScript type inference. The return type is automatically derived from the columns and SQL expressions you pass in, so the result is typed end-to-end without any manual annotation.

Signature

function jsonbBuildObject<T extends Record<string, Column | SQL>>(
  obj: T
): SQL<{ [K in keyof T]: ... }>

Basic usage

import { jsonbBuildObject } from '@serdnam/drizzle-orm-utilities'
import { db } from './db'
import { users } from './schema'

const rows = await db.select({
  summary: jsonbBuildObject({
    id: users.id,
    name: users.name,
  }),
}).from(users)

// rows[0].summary is typed as { id: string; name: string }
console.log(rows[0].summary) // { id: '...', name: 'Alice' }

With SQL expressions

Any SQL value (created with the sql tag) can be used alongside column references. The inferred type comes from the generic you provide to sql<T>.

import { sql } from 'drizzle-orm'
import { jsonbBuildObject } from '@serdnam/drizzle-orm-utilities'

const rows = await db.select({
  data: jsonbBuildObject({
    name: users.name,
    nameUpper: sql<string>`upper(${users.name})`,
  }),
}).from(users)

// rows[0].data is typed as { name: string; nameUpper: string }

Nested calls

jsonbBuildObject returns an SQL expression, so it can be nested inside another call to build deeply structured JSONB objects:

const rows = await db.select({
  data: jsonbBuildObject({
    name: users.name,
    address: jsonbBuildObject({
      city: users.city,
      country: users.country,
    }),
  }),
}).from(users)

// rows[0].data is typed as:
// { name: string; address: { city: string; country: string } }

InferColumnDataType

A type-only utility that extracts the TypeScript data type from a single Drizzle column. Useful when you need the inferred type of a column without going through a full select result.

Signature

type InferColumnDataType<T extends Column> = ...

Usage

import type { InferColumnDataType } from '@serdnam/drizzle-orm-utilities'
import { users } from './schema'

// Extracts the data type of a single column
type UserId = InferColumnDataType<typeof users.id>     // string
type UserName = InferColumnDataType<typeof users.name> // string

// Useful for typing helper functions that accept a column
function logColumn<T extends Column>(col: T, value: InferColumnDataType<T>) {
  console.log(value)
}

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Compatibility

The package ships both ESM and CommonJS builds, and works across all modern module resolution strategies.

Environment	Supported
Node.js ESM (import)	✅
Node.js CJS (require)	✅
Bundlers (Vite, webpack, esbuild)	✅
TypeScript (strict mode)	✅
Drizzle ORM ^1.0.0-beta.22	✅

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Contributing

Integration tests run against a real PostgreSQL database started via Docker Compose.

# Start the database
npm run db:up

# Run migrations
npm run db:migrate

# Run tests
npm test

# Stop the database
npm run db:down

To build the package locally:

npm run build

To validate the package before publishing:

npm run check

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License

MIT