Sequelize bookmarks application

A Javascript (Node.js) application with a MySQL database and Vue.js client application, bundled courtesy of npm and Webpack.

Vue tools

• Bootstrap type tools: http://yuche.github.io/vue-strap/
• Multiselect: https://github.com/monterail/vue-multiselect

Models

There are two database models, Author and Book. Each is represented by a MySQL table.

Author

• name:string

• bio:text

Has Many Books

Book

• name:string

• isbn:integer

• publication_date:date

• description:text

• author_id:integer

API Endpoints

All responses will be in JSON format.

The base url format for all endpoints is:

http://localhost:8000/api

Getting started

First clone the repo and change directories into it.

Workflow is run webpack to build out client side and node index or npm start to fire up the server. The app will run on localhost:8000

The webpack command will compile the javascripts and Vue templates into bundle.js that is in turn called by index.html. The next command will start the server and server index.html to the browser.

christianalfoni/webpack-express-boilerplate is a good example of a more advanced and integrated webpack-express build system #todo

Sequelize Notes

Below are some helper commands to get started and work around Sequelize and SQL databases with Javascript.

Define a model and migration in one command with Sequelize CLI:

$ sequelize model:create --name=Author --attributes name:string,bio:text --underscored

Run migrations (creates tables):

$ sequelize db:migrate

For seeding the initial database with Authors and Books, we use sequelize-fixtures.

MySQL helper commands

Log in to MySQL with password:

$ mysql -u root -p

Note to self: login creds are root/root for local machine

Reset the password if it needs updating:

mysql> ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'myNewPassword'

Create new user and give them all privileges:

mysql> CREATE USER 'admin'@'localhost';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON *.* TO 'admin'@'localhost';
Query OK, 0 rows affected (0.01 sec)

Create a MySQL database:

CREATE DATABASE bookmarks;

Winning formula for database connection is:

new Sequelize('database_name', 'database_user', 'database_password', config);