The Likes Table Problem: Why We Went Polymorphic.

A few days ago, I was working on adding a Community section to an application. The idea was simple, users should be able to: Create posts Leave comments Like posts Like comments We also had a separate News section. The new requirement was users should be able to like news articles as well. Building model for posts and comments was pretty straight forward. The real challenge was to model thelikestable. ...

April 1, 2026 · 3 min · 570 words · saurav