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Date: March 6, 2024

Concepts of backref and back_populate in SQLalchemy?
 Can anyone explain the concepts of these two ideas and how they relate to making relationships between tables? I can't really seem to find anything that explains it clearly and the documentation fe...
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Today I came across some sqlalchemy models that created some relationships, some used `backref`
 some used `back_populates`. I was stumped why, I had never came accross `backref` before and I felt skill issues sinking in.

## backref is considered legacy

https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/orm/backref.html

As stated in the sqlalchemy docs, backref is a legacy feature. Its shorthand to creating relationships between parent and child, but only adding it to the parent. While this is simpler it introduces some invisible magic.

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