Express-Sequelize Wrapper

An express wrapper using sequelize

Resources

• Api Reference (In progress)
• Step-by-step tutorial to setup a simple server (In progress)

Features

• An easy way to setup a server

Installation

npm install express-sequelize-wrapper

Simple app

Create a new app with AppWrapper.App module, and add below code to your app.js file

var AppWrapper = require('express-sequelize-wrapper'),
    App = AppWrapper.App,
    app;
 
app = new App();

Set database

To setup database use .setDatabase() method, it recieves database basic configuration and models.

app.setDatabase(
    // Config
    {
        name : 'tablename',
        username : 'username',
        password : 'password',
        // If there's no settings default dialect (sqlite) will be set, 
        settings : {
            dialect : 'postgres',
            port: 5432
        }
    },
    // Models
    function(sequelize,DataTypes){
        var models = {};
        models.User = sequelize.define('User', {
            name: DataTypes.STRING
        });
        return models;
    }
);

Add route

You can add routes using .addRoute() method, it gets a function that recieves depencencies and returns the route configuration

app.addRoute(function(){
    return {
        path : '/route/path',
        callback : function(request,response){
            response.send('Hello World!');
            response.end();
        }
    };
});

Install sub-app

You can also install other apps

Sub App installer

The installer function have can have path and parent parameters or just parent parameter, all paths inside sub-app are set after path.

// Using path
var subAppInstallerWithPath = function(path,parent){
    // Sub-app
    var subApp = new App(path,parent);
    // Sub-app route
    subApp.addRoute({
        path : '/happy-route',
        callback : function(req,res){
            res.send('Sub app happy route!');
            res.end();
        }
    });
};
 
// Without path
var subAppInstallerWithoutPath = function(parent){
    // Sub-app
    var subApp = new App(parent);
    // Sub-app route
    subApp.addRoute({
        path : '/cool-route',
        callback : function(req,res){
            res.send('Sub app cool route!');
            res.end();
        }
    });
};

Installing sub-apps

To install sub-app use .install() method

// Using path
app.install('/sub-app',subAppInstallerWithPath);
// Without using path
app.install(subAppInstallerWithoutPath);

Start and stop server

To start server use .start() method

app.start();

And stop server using .stop() method

app.stop();