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JavaScript Install and Use Sequelize CLI

Terence Wayburne
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Terence Wayburne
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Terence Wayburne
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I followed all steps and ran 'npm start' no database was created.

I followed all steps and ran 'npm start' no database was created.

I used Team Treehouses template. Double checked everything. When I run 'npm start' the server starts but no DB is created.

3 Answers

Ahmad Ibrahim
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Ahmad Ibrahim
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Ahmad Ibrahim
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I ran into the same issue and found my problem to be in the config/config.json file it needed to look like this:

{
  "development": {
    "dialect": "sqlite",
    "storage": "development.db"
  },
  "test": {
    "dialect": "sqlite",
    "storage": "test.db"
  },
  "production": {
    "dialect": "sqlite",
    "storage": "production.db"
  }
}
William Lumanauw
William Lumanauw
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William Lumanauw
William Lumanauw
5,783 Points

I experience the same issue. Then I edit my code on file www.js at line 10-11 like this :

// const { Sequelize } = require('sequelize/types');

var sequelize = require('../models').sequelize; // import Sequelize.

After that, I ran 'npm start' then the DB file was created.

Berian Lowe
Berian Lowe
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Berian Lowe
Berian Lowe
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Hi all,

Just incase anyone else is suffering the same issue and the above answers don't help:

Sequelize CLI provides a command that runs migrations and creates database tables:

$ npx sequelize-cli db:migrate

Running this created the development.db table in the root directory.