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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)
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

Manipulating and querying data using Sequelize

After initializing our database’s structure and data, we should be able to view, modify, and remove the airplanes from our dashboard. For now, we will create very naive and simple implementations for our administrative tasks, but since we are the only technical employee at Avalon Airlines, this will not be a problem. As we continue creating the project, we will modify our application to become more robust and function with safety measures in mind.

Reading data

Replace the app.get('/', …) block with the following code (in index.js):

app.get('/', async function (req, res) {
    const airplanes = await models.Airplane.findAll();
    res.send("<pre>" + JSON.stringify(airplanes, undefined, 
              4) + "</pre>");
});

After that, save the file and run...