In an earlier published tutorial, we’ve touched the topic of filtering documents by fields of nested objects using Thinky. With the native support of joins in RethinkDB, you’re able to structure your documents with relations between individual Thinky models. That means, splitting up your nested objects into separate …

Within the previous posts, you’ve already learned how to query documents by fields of nested objects and how to add custom methods to a Thinky model. This guide still focuses on models, but shifts gears to relations. Precisely, you’ll learn how to apply sorting on joined documents. Before …

We’ve touched Thinky last week and showed you how to query documents by fields of a nested object. This week, we’re continuing on Thinky with another post showing you how to extend your Model definition by adding custom methods. Before diving into the details, have a look at …

Thinky is a lightweight Node.js ORM for RethinkDB. The library helps you to define models representing the objects you’re using within your code. Further, you can define various relations between each of your models. Primarily, Thinky helps you to CRUD documents in RethinkDB out of your Node.js …

Virtuals are additional fields for a given model. Their values can be set manually or automatically with defined functionality. A common virtual property is the full name of a person, composed of user’s first and last name. Keep in mind: virtual properties don’t get persisted in the database. …

Sorting in RethinkDB (and JavaScript in general) can cause a lot of pain. We previously posted a workaroud for MongoDB to fix this issue. Now we're going to fix it for RethinkDB. The problem: RethinkDB (like MongoDB) always sorts case sensitive in the following order Numerics: 0-9 Uppercase letters: A-Z …