How to build a REST API with Express and Sequelize

How to build a REST API with Express and Sequelize

6 years ago
Anonymous $9jpehmcKty

https://medium.com/@keller.f.peter/how-to-build-a-rest-api-with-express-and-sequelize-67d2593de159

When I started learning Node I made the same mistake as most bootcamp graduates these days. I went straight for NoSQL databases without even considering SQL as an option and I had no idea what I had missed out on until when I was recently exposed to Ruby on Rails and SQL. I learned the difference between the two type of databases and managed to love both of them, equally. Because of my newly found knowledge I decided to write a walkthrough on how to build a REST API using Express and Sequelize.

Let’s start by installing the npm packages that we will use: