Supercharging Node.js Applications with Sequelize

A hands-on implementation guide to application development in Node.js using the powerful Sequelize ORM

Key Features

• Use the highly powerful JavaScript library to map your database to objects easily
• Build an application from scratch with easy-to-follow steps and examples
• Discover industry best practices, tips, and techniques on Sequelize to manage your database with ease

Book Description

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.

What you will learn

• Configure and optimize Sequelize for your application
• Validate your database and hydrate it with data
• Add life cycle events (or hooks) to your application for business logic
• Organize and ensure the integrity of your data even on preexisting databases
• Scaffold a database using built-in Sequelize features and tools
• Discover industry-based best practices, tips, and techniques to simplify your application development

Who this book is for

This book is for beginner- to intermediate-level Node.js developers looking to upgrade their skills and use Sequelize as their ORM of choice. Basic knowledge of and prior experience with JavaScript and SQL are needed to make the most out of this book.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction to Sequelize and ORM in Node.js
2. Defining and Using Sequelize Models
3. Validating Models
4. Associating Models
5. Adding Hooks and Lifecycle Events to Your Models
6. Implementing Transactions with Sequelize
7. Handling Customized, JSON, and Blob Data Types
8. Logging and Monitoring Your Application
9. Using and Creating Adapters
10. Deploying a Sequelize Application

About the author

Daniel Durante is an avid welder, motorcyclist, archer, and carpenter whenever he isn’t programming. Right from the age of 12, he has been involved with web and embedded programming starting out with PHP, and then moving onto Node.js, Golang, Rust, and C.

He has worked on text-based browser games that have reached over 1,000,000 active players, created bin-packing software for CNC machines, embedded programming with cortex-m and PIC circuits, high-frequency trading applications, and helped contribute to one of the oldest ORMs of Node.js (SequelizeJS).