Supercharging Node.js Applications with Sequelize

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Using and Creating Adapters

After developing for several years, you may have a set of common utility functions, a collection of other frameworks, and a library of your own scripts. Maintaining all of these moving parts may become too entropic for an enterprise project or a fleet of microservices. We can restructure our common code into a more generic interface, or pattern, and reclassify those scripts as an “adapter” (also known as a “plugin”).

Using adapters can save us development time, prevent us from repeating ourselves, and help centralize collaboration by maintaining its code base. A few examples of an adapter would be transforming text into a specific character ruleset, scaffolding a sidecar project such as an administrative dashboard, ...