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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

Creating a page to list and book flights

For this application, we will be requiring two external libraries to help build the frontend components for the application. The first library is Bulma, which is a CSS framework designed for quick prototyping and doesn’t require its own JavaScript library. For more information on Bulma, you can visit its website, located at https://bulma.io/. The next library is AlpineJS, which is a framework that helps us avoid writing JavaScript to modify states or behaviors by using HTML tags and markup. More information can be found at https://alpinejs.dev/.

Note

Other fantastic frontend frameworks that can be used instead of AlpineJS include VueJS, React, or Deepkit. AlpineJS was chosen for this book due to its minimal setup and requirements.

Let us start with the bare necessities, the HTML for a simple header section of the website:

  1. Within public/index.html, add the following code:
    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html>
    <head>...