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Supercharging Node.js Applications with Sequelize

By : Daniel Durante
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Book Image

Supercharging Node.js Applications with Sequelize

4 (1)
By: Daniel Durante

Overview of this book

Continuous changes in business requirements can make it difficult for programmers to organize business logic into database models, which turns out to be an expensive operation as changes to the database may result in errors and incongruity within applications. Supercharging Node.js Applications with Sequelize helps you get to grips with Sequelize, a reliable ORM that enables you to alleviate these issues in your database and applications. With Sequelize, you'll no longer need to store information in flat files or memory. This book takes a hands-on approach to implementation and associated methodologies for your database that will have you up and running in no time. You'll learn how to configure Sequelize for your Node.js application properly, develop a better sense of understanding of how this ORM works, and find out how to manage your database from Node.js using Sequelize. Finally, you'll be able to use Sequelize as the database driver for building your application from scratch. By the end of this Node.js book, you'll be able to configure, build, store, retrieve, validate, and associate your data from a database to a Node.js application.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Installation, Configuration, and the Basics
4
Part 2 – Validating, Customizing, and Associating Your Data
10
Part 3 – Advanced Queries, Using Adapters, and Logging Queries

Configuring logging with all of the available interfaces

Sequelize offers a few overload signatures for incorporating logs into an application. The default behavior is to call console.log for each query. The following is a list of signatures that Sequelize will abide by:

  • function (msg) {}
  • function (...msg) {}
  • true/false
  • msg => someLogger.debug(msg)
  • someLogger.debug.bind(someLogger)

If we wanted to customize Sequelize’s logging behavior, the following example would be a quick introduction to how to do so:

function customLog(msg) {
    // insert into db/logger app here
    // ...
    // and output to stdout
    console.log(msg);
}
const sequelize = new Sequelize('sqlite::memory:', {
    logging: customLog
});

In addition to Sequelize sending the SQL queries into our customLog function, we are also given a helper method for when we...