Unable to resolve sequelize package

Question

I'm trying to install sequelize-cli in my Mac OS 10.12.6.

In Terminal, I did

npm install -g sequelize-cli

I got

npm WARN deprecated minimatch@2.0.10: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated minimatch@0.2.14: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated graceful-fs@1.2.3: graceful-fs v3.0.0 and before will fail on node releases >= v7.0. Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible. Use 'npm ls graceful-fs' to find it in the tree.
/usr/local/bin/sequelize -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/sequelize-cli/bin/sequelize
/usr/local/lib
└── sequelize-cli@2.8.0

Then, I tried

sequelize model:create --name User --attributes name:string,complete:boolean

I got

Unable to resolve sequelize package in /Users/bheng/Sites/BASE

I even try with the --save as this post suggested.

npm install -g sequelize-cli --save

I got same result.

npm WARN deprecated minimatch@2.0.10: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated minimatch@0.2.14: Please update to minimatch 3.0.2 or higher to avoid a RegExp DoS issue
npm WARN deprecated graceful-fs@1.2.3: graceful-fs v3.0.0 and before will fail on node releases >= v7.0. Please update to graceful-fs@^4.0.0 as soon as possible. Use 'npm ls graceful-fs' to find it in the tree.
/usr/local/bin/sequelize -> /usr/local/lib/node_modules/sequelize-cli/bin/sequelize
/usr/local/lib
└── sequelize-cli@2.8.0

sequelize model:create --name User --attributes name:string,complete:boolean

Unable to resolve sequelize package in /Users/bheng/Sites/BASE

What else should I try ?

If someone faces the same issue make sure you install sequelize first — sujeet, Oct 02 '19 at 11:36

AbhinavD · Accepted Answer · 2017-08-31T03:42:09.783

In sequelize-cli package.json file, sequelize is mentioned as a devdependency which means it does not install it when you do npm install sequelize-cli. My guess is you have not installed sequelize itself and this is what the error says.

Unable to resolve sequelize package in /Users/bheng/Sites/BASE

install sequelize npm install --save sequelize (or global) and things should be good.

PS: Great answer on different dependencies and what they mean

score 11 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 17 '20 at 09:21

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I had the same issue. I installed sequelize-cli forgetting to add sequelize itself:

npm install sequelize

answered Aug 17 '20 at 09:21

Victor Karangwa

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 28 '21 at 13:57

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you can try this one

npm install --save-dev sequelize sequelize-cli

npx sequelize-cli init

Once you get models migrations folders, means sequelize is working.

answered Nov 28 '21 at 13:57

Jayant

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score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 07 '20 at 11:40

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You will need to install sequelize globally.

npm install -g sequelize

answered Aug 07 '20 at 11:40

vendeeshwaran Chandran

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score 1 · Answer 5 · answered Feb 19 '21 at 13:00

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First you have need to install sequelize package, after then execute cli command.

answered Feb 19 '21 at 13:00

Rutvik Mehta

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how is your answer different than the accepted one? – germanio Feb 19 '21 at 14:49
Because it is simple as it is. – Rutvik Mehta Feb 22 '21 at 10:38

score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Nov 25 '21 at 20:21

I had a similar case where when I was trying to run any sequelize command.

ie. sequelize init or sequelize --help

I would get the error:

Unable to resolve sequelize package in <my-project-directory>

None of the solutions above where helping my case but after farther digging I found this article talking about the importance of the order in which one installs dependencies.

I had installed my my development dependencies first (sequelize-cli before sequelize) and that's why it wasn't working.

Because this is a new project I just removed my yarn files and the package.json (left my other files untouched) and started over and this time I did:

yarn init
yarn add <my dependencies>
yarn add --dev <my development dependencies>

This solved my issue.

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered Feb 15 '22 at 11:29

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Yes. This is "normal" the CLI will try to find the sequelize package in your current working directory and/or in the node paths. So you could either install the package in your local dir or in any parent directory or in the global space.

Unable to resolve sequelize package

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