Create a guide for many to many relationships

[ekryski]

This keeps coming up over and over again and we need to have a concrete example we can point to for how you deal with many to many relationships with Feathers. We do have some stuff in the FAQ but I think we need a real guide.

Some related discussions to go off of:

• How do you retrieve associations in the response? feathers-sequelize#12
• How to retrieve records for a many to many relationship? feathers-sequelize#16

[niallobrien]

What's the preferred method?

[ekryski]

@niallobrien I'm pushing something up today

[niallobrien]

Awesome, thanks.

[sscaff1]

Any updates on this?

[ekryski]

@sscaff1 yes sorry I have some stuff in the works, basically if you need simple population you can just use the feathers populate hook and if you need more complex stuff you currently need to drop into sequelize by passing hook.params.sequelize options. If you search the github issues for the feathers org a bunch of stuff should come up.

I've been bogged down with work and we're not using sequelize so I'm hoping to have this guide wrapped up next week.

[lobosan]

Hi @ekryski, hope you are doing well. I was wondering if the guide is ready? if so where can I find it? and if not, then can you say when this would be available? Thanks for your help.

[ekryski]

I'm not sure if this is required any more since the new generator/cli v2.0.0, sets up the sequelize model structure for you automatically and you simply defined your many-to-many relationships the way sequelize tells you to.

The one thing might be related to population. @DesignByOnyx you wouldn't be up for writing a blog post would you? That way we can stop answering questions in Slack and just point people to the post.