I am facing an issue where the beforeCreate hook in my Sequelize model is not being triggered when I attempt to create a new record. I have defined hooks in my model, but it seems they are not executing as expected. Below is the detailed description of the problem and my setup.

I am writing a webapp for practice. I have several sequelize models, and querying the db through them so far has been no issue. However, when I tried to use a junction table to return what would be a simple join in SQL, I ran into an issue.

I have 2 table schemas Customer and Cart

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