Integrating relationship query builder similar to Laravel

CI4 follows the CodeIgniter philosophy of being lightweight and only loading what you need. ORMs are pretty deeply involved and require firing up just about every major service to work. Components like this are usually better left to third-party packages (or other frameworks), and that’s the decision the CI4 team made. There are a handful of third-party modules already, and CI4 isn’t even released yet. I happen to know this one will be maintained and improved on, though it isn’t a full ORM, and it currently works very well:
https://github.com/tattersoftware/codeig...-relations