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+/**
+ * A brand new example of how to initialize Waterline without Express
+ * The biggest change is decoupling Waterline and Express, thus it can be used as a normal module at any place.
+ */
+
+var mysqlAdapter = require('sails-mysql');
+var Waterline = require('waterline');
+
+/*Instantiate a new instance of Waterline*/
+var waterline = new Waterline();
+
+/*Announce a empty object, and give it to module.exports to expose it*/
+var models = {};
+module.exports = models;
+
+
+/*Give out the config object for waterline*/
+var config = {
+  adapters: {
+    mysql: mysqlAdapter,
+    default: 'mysql'
+  },
+  connections: {
+    mysql: {
+      adapter: 'mysql',
+      url: 'mysql://localhost/test?user=root&password='
+    }
+  }
+};
+
+/*Define the collections*/
+var User = Waterline.Collection.extend({
+  migrate: 'alter',
+  identity: 'user',
+  connection: 'mysql',
+  attributes: {
+    first_name: 'string',
+    last_name: 'string'
+  }
+});
+
+/*Load collections to the waterline instance*/
+waterline.loadCollection(User);
+
+/*Initialize the Waterline instance*/
+waterline.initialize(config, function (err, ontology) {
+  if (err) return console.error('waterline initialize failed.', err);
+
+  /*This is the point: fullfiling the exported object with the collections given by the async initialize method.*/
+  Object.assign(models, ontology.collections);
+});
+
+
+/*That's all. You can import it at any module, and use the collections freely. The following is a snippet*/
+
+/*
+var express = require('express');
+var router = express.Router();
+
+//import the module we defined
+var models = require('../lib/waterline');
+
+/!* GET home page. *!/
+router.get('/', function(req, res, next) {
+  var user = {
+    first_name: 'elvis',
+    last_name: 'yang',
+  };
+  models.user.create(user, function(err, result) {
+    if(err) res.json(err);
+    else res.json(result);
+  });
+});
+
+module.exports = router;
+*/