What's the point of Sequelize associations if using MySQL DB First approach (no migrations) and Rest API?

What's the point of having associations in my models code if I'm using Rest API for an SPA (Angular4), no eager loading, and not using migrations (ie DB First)? I've setup my whole Db using Workbench and establishing the foreign keys there.

Submitted October 16, 2017 at 09:40PM by Anacrust