I was battling with Sequelize JS for a long time, then discovered Bookshelf. A breath of fresh air, it works so much better. Plus, the underlying library (Knex) is also fantastic for raw queries, migrations, etc.
Out of curiosity, what were you battling with? I've been using them for some time now and have only had good things to say, so curious about your pain points. Ability to plug in custom queries, sensible defaults with options to override everything, and a responsive maintainer have all been great.
Same here. Sequelize looks nice on the surface, but I've found its documentation to be atrociously out of date. Bookshelf has less features but works better in practice.
I didn't have problems as such with Sequelize, it was just a lot more difficult to work with than Bookshelf. And it's been about two years so I don't remember the details, sorry.
