Fork in the road: Transaction Script vs. Domain Model

Let's pause.

From here, we can proceed in two ways.

The first is the Transaction Script approach.

This unhinges us to write the code however we want in order to make it work. As a result, the code we write is quite imperatively in nature. We write exactly what we want to happen without the sweetness of any abstraction to encapsulate the complexity. Our end goal is to make a User row appear in a database somewhere. Using this approach, one possible solution is to directly import Sequelize, TypeORM, or perhaps mysqljs…