In the sequelize manual it's marked that sequelize.import is deprecated and we should use just require instead : https://sequelize.org/master/manual/models-definition.html But the code generated by sequelize-cli is still using it : ```js fs.readdirSync(__dirname)` .filter((file) => { return ( file.indexOf(".") !== 0 && file !== basename && file.slice(-3) === ".js" ); }) .forEach((file) => { const model = sequelize["import"](path.join(__dirname, file)); db[model.name] = model; }); ``` __Dialect:__ any __Database version:__ all __Sequelize CLI version:__ all __Sequelize version:__ all