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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

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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)
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Part 1 – Installation, Configuration, and the Basics
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Part 2 – Validating, Customizing, and Associating Your Data
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Part 3 – Advanced Queries, Using Adapters, and Logging Queries

Deploying the application

Before we begin, we will want to make sure our project is initialized as a git repository, if your machine does not have git installed you may find instruction on how to install the binary here https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Getting-Started-Installing-Git. If you’ve been following along, and haven’t yet initialized your project as a git repository, you can do so by running the following command in your project’s root directory:

git init

For the deployment process, we will use a cloud hosting service called Fly.io (https://fly.io/). Fly.io offers a useful command line tool to help us register and authenticate into an account in addition to making application deployments easier. Detailed instructions on getting started with Fly.io’s CLI can be found at https://fly.io/docs/hands-on/install-flyctl/.

For MacOS users, with Homebrew, we can install the binary with this command:

brew install flyctl

Linux users can install...