The article explores the author's experiences with database migrations in Node.js, highlighting the challenges faced in adapting from PHP's Doctrine tools. The author discovered node-pg-migrate, a lightweight migration management tool tailored for PostgreSQL, which offers TypeScript support and simple script commands. A notable limitation is the absence of a built-in feature for generating migrations from existing database schemas, but a workaround involving raw SQL files is suggested, providing an effective solution for executing migrations more efficiently.
Never thought you'd need to handle database migrations in Node.js? Me neither. Anyway, here's one way to do it. Oh, and I think Node.js blog posts need emojis, right? 💯💡
Since we didn't need a full-blown database abstraction layer and were really just looking for flexible, scriptable migrations, we searched for a lightweight solution. That's when I stumbled upon node-pg-migrate.
Unfortunately, node-pg-migrate doesn't provide a built-in way to generate migrations from an existing database schema. But I wasn't the first to run into this.
What about my existing schema? ... That got me wondering - does node-pg-migrate actually support raw SQL files for migrations? Surprisingly, yes!
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