How to seed uuidv4 with sequelize

Question

I am trying to seed a uuid using sequilize generateUUID but i get this error Seed file failed with error: sequelize.Utils.generateUUID is not a function TypeError: sequelize.Utils.generateUUID is not a function

how do i seed a UUID?

    return queryInterface.bulkInsert('companies', [{
        id: sequelize.Utils.generateUUID(),
        name: 'Testing',
        updated_at: new Date(),
        created_at: new Date()
    }]);

Answer 1

just install uuid:

npm install uuid

and on your seed file:

const uuidv4 = require('uuid/v4');

module.exports = {
  up: (queryInterface, Sequelize) => {
    return queryInterface.bulkInsert('yourTableName', [
      {
        id: uuidv4()
      }],
 {});