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JavaScript Using SQL ORMs with Node.js Getting Started with Sequelize Define a Model

Posted by Muaaz Matwadia
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Muaaz Matwadia
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 19,327 Points

Sequelize Define a model

const sequelize = new Sequelize({...});

Im getting an error whenever I type the " ... ".Also what does the dots do?

Here is my full code:

const Sequelize = require('sequelize');
const sequelize = new Sequelize({...});

const sequelize = new Sequelize({
  dialect: 'sqlite',
  storage: 'movies.db',
});

(async () => {
  try {
    await sequelize.authenticate();
    console.log('Connection to the database successful!');
  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Error connecting to the database: ', error);
  }
})();

class Movie extends Sequelize.Model {}
Movie.init({ ... });

(async () => {
  await sequelize.sync({ force: true });

  try {
    const movie = await Movie.create({
      title: 'Toy Story',
    });
    console.log(movie.toJSON());

  } catch (error) {
    console.error('Error connecting to the database: ', error);
  }
})();```
Reggie Williams
Reggie Williams
Treehouse Teacher
Reggie Williams
Reggie Williams
Treehouse Teacher

Hey Azzie Fuzzie the ... are just placeholders for values you'll update later. Which line are you getting the error on?

Muaaz Matwadia
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Muaaz Matwadia
Full Stack JavaScript Techdegree Graduate 19,327 Points

Hey, Reggie Williams it says unexpected token by the last curly bracket on line 2

1 Answer

Karol Chabros
Karol Chabros
17,675 Points

These dots represents folded or collapsed code from previous step. sequelize should look like this:

const sequelize = new Sequelize({
  dialect: 'sqlite',
  storage: 'movies.db'
});
Johannes Karpe
Johannes Karpe
6,899 Points

thank you for this! I though I only had to created this once. I deleted it after the first step!