We all know NodeBB plugin is such a pain in the ass, because we do not have type information and we aren't sure about the hooked data structure and made unintended modification and can even unexpectedly corrupt the database. We should move on to use TypeScript, with the added benefit of being able to use ES modules that will make it able to start much faster (since ES modules are static and CommonJS are dynamic, this decreases pressure on module resolution)

I have a database plugin for sale, powered by TypeORM.

I have also made sure it could work with most of the database out of the box that supports multiple database backend, including MySQL, Postgres, SQLite, SQL Server and of course SQLite. But to install it there might be some patches needed. I'm still coming up with some idea of how to run the integration test in NodeBB main DB test suites. Once I got 100% conformance on all supported databases mentioned, this will be on https://privjs.com/ soon.