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JavaScript Using SQL ORMs with Node.js Defining Models Exercise: Add a Person Model

Anton Kilk
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How did we end up with the table named "People"?

The name of class or model was "Person". I expect that table name would be the same, no?

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Juan Lopez
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Juan Lopez
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Under the hood, sequelize uses an awesome library called inflection to compute singular and plural forms of words, which works with virtually any english word, including irregular plurals such as "Person" -> "People", "Octopus" -> "Octopi", "Tooth" -> "Teeth". There are a few words that inflection gets wrong though, and for those cases, or cases in which you want to force your custom singular/plural words, see the next topic.

Here is a link to a post on stackoverflow with more information.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/49459596/how-do-plurals-work-in-sequelize/49459597