Q. How to view the SQL being sent to the server?
A. Pass in verbose option when connecting.
Mapper.connect(conn, {verbose: true});
Q. How to do prepared statements?
A. Unfortunately, this has not been implemented in the driver. For now,
use pseudo-bindings with '?' placeholders to bind locals.
Post.where('blurb like ?', ['%foo%'], cb);
Q. What about validations?
A. I put validations in a separate module to be shared with client code.
Q. What about migrations?
A. See mygrate, an external migration utility for MySQL and PostgreSQL ot tied to an ORM.