You can help Ukraine and this project

[michaelyali]

Hello, dear users of this library, colleagues, and friends.

I'm Mykhaylo Yali, the creator of NestJsCRUD (some of you may know me personally as Michael).
I lived in Mariupol until Russia invaded Ukraine, killing thousands of innocent people, and destroyed my city, literally flattened to the ground almost all of it. Like many Ukrainians, I was expecting the war to come, but the level of Russian cruelty, barbarism, and inhumanity is way beyond any lines.

So with this, I would like to share my story because I have to.

I fled Mariupol with my family on the very first day of the war and it was obvious to me that we need to leave ASAP because when you're waking up early in the morning because of heavy shellings, the very first thought is "this is it, it has begun" and it's scary af.

Unfortunately, that morning we couldn't drive too far, because we needed to visit my wife's parents who live in a small town Nikolske nearly 20 km from Mariupol. And while approaching it we almost got bombed. Emergency braking and hiding in the wood near the road just saved our lives

nikolske-bombing.mp4

We couldn't just leave the parents there and decided to stay and act according to the further situation. At first sight, that might look stupid but in fact, it's hard to leave people you love, especially when they don't want and refuse to go with you because it's even harder for elderlies to leave their homes. We stayed.

After 2 days we were cut from the world, without electricity, mobile phone connection, or internet because Russians started to fight for this town and destroyed the energy supply and communication infrastructure. At this point, I want to thank Ashleigh Simonelli
who was supporting me all the time and who has contacted almost everyone who might know me to find out if I'm OK or alive at least 🙏 🙌

On March 5th we saw some cars fleeing Mariupol, just by pure luck we made it to join them in a small village nearby and drove with this small column of 20-30 cars to Zaporighya, heading North-West avoiding those villages where Russians might have been already. On March 7th Nikolske has been occupied by Russian terrorists.

For the next 5 horrible days, we were heading to Lviv. Thanks to the awesome people from Forbytes and especially Orest Chaykivskyi we've made it and were able to live, work and rest and be relatively safe. One should understand that there are no completely safe places left in Ukraine. We were able to feel it on our own by waking up in the morning from strong explosions on the third day after our arrival.

After a week or so the survived neighbors from Mariupol told us that our house building has been bombed and is no longer habitable, at all. Here is how it looks now 😭

my-home.mp4

So we were lucky that we were having some mobility by owning a car but without any clue what to expect or to do next. My parents-in-law stay in the occupied Nikolske and my Mum and my brother live in a small village near destroyed Volnovakha. Thank God we still can contact them from time to time when it's possible for them.

But of course, our five-year-old son Pasha suffered the most. He has autism and other mental disorders. It is very hard for him to accept this new reality and even now he keeps asking me, at least once a day, if we can go back home. Unfortunately, we can't.

That's him in Zaporighya when we've made it to escape

Having all that, we considered leaving Ukraine until the war ends will be the best that we could do for Pasha and his safety first of all. So we did on April 1st, and I was allowed to leave too because we have a bunch of medical documents describing Pasha's disability from several Ukrainian medical institutions, collected from 2018 to 2020. Back then I was thinking that it was the worse period of our lives when we've learned the diagnosis. But sitting in a house with this innocent boy in my hands and praying during the shellings - that's a true nightmare.

Now we're are safe and staying in Spain, that was another 5 days of driving by car, but it was worth it.

That was my story. Having been a little more prepared and have had expecting a Russian invasion helped me to save my family's lives. And now I'm asking you to help Ukrainians, to help others, more vulnerable people.

👉Please Help Ukraine Now!🇺🇦

And another yet very important topic is the future of this project. I've already prepared and pushed to master some updates that are necessary for further work.

I didn't touch Opencollective's money until I needed them most a couple of weeks ago. They saved my brother's life at that moment and partially were donated to some volunteers that I know personally. Thank you to all financial contributors who were supporting NestJs CRUD all these years.

Now, seeing this library's success and thousands of companies using it (it has over 100k monthly downloads, and over 30k monthly visitors' hits on GitHub) I can't even imagine how many of you it did help and saved time, and this is great! This was its initial purpose - to save your time and thus your or your company's money.

So I wonder if there is any chance for any company using this library to be able to become a sponsor of NestJs CRUD. I know many of you are using it in production for a long time with pretty success. I know it has some issues, those will be fixed for sure, and new very expected packages for other DBs will be added for sure. I just need to be sure that I do it not just for nothing, not just for another call or personal message asking when I gonna fix that bug.

Having no home, no savings left at all (I spent all of them on long-term rent by paying in advance, on my relatives, and donations) I just need to have a strong motivation by knowing that this library helps everyone in this room, it helps you now and I promise it will continue to do it in the future, and I hope will help my family too.

With hopes for the nearest end of the Russian inhumane war,
with best regards,
sincerely yours,

Mykhaylo Yali

👉Please Help NestJs CRUD

[SpeedoPasanen]

Sad and angry here. So glad you're ok though!

Finland is doing everything we can to help. Wish there was more we could do without the fear of nuclear apocalypse. Will personally send whatever help I can. I hope for a better future.

[michaelyali]

@bashleigh please don't delete that one. Just want to keep for the history

Наглое враньё. Это ж надо так ценнично врать, чтоб денег срубить. Еще за Донбасс ответите

Русский, это вы ответите и за Донбасс и за Мариуполь и за все остальные города, тебе с твоего кармана ещё репарации платить, не трать деньги на интернет, поэкономь немного.

[iamklim]

Спасибо за библиотеку, используем на in-house проекте. Был удивлен когда узнал что вы из моего родного города. Силы всем нам 🙏

[dzcpy]

Is this project abandoned?

[qidasheng369]

我们和乌克兰在一起。
我们支持乌克兰。

We are with Ukraine.
We support Ukraine.

[superiums]

all fight and destroy is urgly, no matter it speaks like flower.
bless ones all over the word to be safe and kind.
all lifes are equal, we are not categerited by country, but kindness.

[Roxannej]

Israel killed a lot of civilians in Gaza. Why don't you good people have sympathy for Palestine?