Has the user liked the post before or not using Sequelize

Question

Currently when a user likes a post, that like record gets added to my Likes table with the userId and the postId.

Now, when a user is looking at a post, I want to determi

Answer 1

You don't need to request Like once again, you got all post's likes at your hand:

for (const post of plainPosts) {
 // check if we have any like among posts' likes that is made by a certain user
 const isLiked = post.Likes.some(x => x.userId === req.user.id);
 const { Post_Images, ...postAttributes } = post;
 ...