UQL ORM Expands Entity Definition Options Beyond Decorators to Support Diverse Developer Preferences
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Introduction: Breaking Free from Decorator Dependency in UQL ORM Until UQL v0.8.0, developers were handcuffed to decorators for defining database entities. This wasn’t just a stylistic quibble—it was a hard technical barrier. Decorators, while elegant in theory, rely on a specific TypeScript compiler flag (experimentalDecorators) and runtime support. In environments where these are absent or disabled, UQL’s entity definitions would mechanically fail to compile or execute. The root cau