Nodejs express postgres application failing on deployment

If you create an environment variable called DATABASE_URL with the “Internal Database URL” from the Render Postgres instance, you should be able to connect with just:

const sequelize = new Sequelize(process.env.DATABASE_URL)

As covered in their docs: https://sequelize.org/docs/v6/getting-started/#connecting-to-a-database.

Once you get the connection sorted, you can expand on what other configuration you want.

Alan

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