finally got the associations to work through black magic

src/model/Models.ts

@@ -1,15 +1,29 @@
-import { User } from './User';
 import { Auth } from './Auth';
-import { UserPerms } from './UserPerms';
-import { Post } from './Post';
-import { Tag } from './Tag';
+import { Attachment } from './Attachment';
+import { Bucket } from './Bucket';
+import { DBState } from './DBState';
+import { Post, PostBucket } from './Post';
 import { PostTag } from './PostTag';
+import { Project } from './Project';
+import { Tag } from './Tag';
+import { User, addUserScopes } from './User';
+import { UserPerms, addUserPermsScopes } from './UserPerms';
+import { SqliteDialect } from '@sequelize/sqlite3';
+import Sequelize from '@sequelize/core';
 
-User.sync();
-Auth.sync();
-UserPerms.sync();
-PostTag.sync();
-Tag.sync();
-Post.sync();
 
-export { User, Auth, UserPerms, Post, Tag, PostTag }
+const sequelize = new Sequelize({
+    dialect: SqliteDialect,
+    storage: 'db.sqlite',
+    models: [Auth, Attachment, Bucket, DBState, Post, PostBucket, PostTag, Project, Tag, User, UserPerms],
+
+});
+
+
+const dbSync = (async ()=> await sequelize.sync())().then(()=>{
+    addUserScopes();
+    addUserPermsScopes();
+});
+
+
+export { sequelize, dbSync, Auth, Attachment, Bucket, DBState, Post, PostBucket, PostTag, Project, Tag, User, UserPerms }