The Sequelize library provides easy access to a MySQL database by mapping database entries to objects and vice versa. To put it in a nutshell... it's an ORM (Object-Relational-Mapper). The library is written entirely in JavaScript and can be used in the Node.JS environment.
- Schema definition
- Schema synchronization/dropping
- Easy definition of class/instance methods
- Instance saving/updating/dropping
- Asynchronous library
- Associations
- Importing definitions from single files
You can find the documentation and announcements of updates on the project's website.
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Also make sure to take a look at the examples in the repository. The website will contain them soon, as well. For a (more or less) complete overview of changes in 1.0.0. take a look at this blogpost.
In order to run the tests, you need the expresso framework! When installed just run:
expresso -s test/**/*