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WTF is an ORM

Syntax - Tasty Web Development Treats

ORMs: A Translation Layer Between Database and Language

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An ORM object relational mapping is like a translation layer between the database and the language that you're working in. It provides ease of use in abstracting the kinds of things that you do with a database or working in a data layer, a day to day. But oftentimes, writing raw database queries isn't necessarily something that a lot of developers are doing. And I actually fell into this trap myself when I removed Mongoose from our stack - which we'll talk about soon.

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