local database doesn't work

[m4v15]

This isn't a big deal, but something that might be useful to know:

This line, in sequilize.js which you need to make the remote DB work, stops a local DB from working:

  dialectOptions: {
    ssl: true,
  },

There are a few ways around it, a simple one is having it depend on an environment variable, eg:

dialectOptions: {
  ssl: !process.env.USE_LOCAL_DB,
},

Then if someone wants to use a local database, they just make sure they have a variable called USE_LOCAL_DB in their env file. On Heroku, or wherever you want to use a hosted DB, this variable should not exist so then the statement ssl: !process.env.USE_LOCAL_DB evaluates to ssl:true as it is now.