HELPFUL DB-MIGRATE INFO

npm - https://www.npmjs.com/package/db-migrate
mysql - https://db-migrate.readthedocs.io/en/latest/API/SQL/
commands - https://db-migrate.readthedocs.io/en/latest/Getting%20Started/commands/

Getting Started

Create a .env file from the sample below. Then run install db-migrate with npm install -g db-migrate

CLI Commands

• db-migrate create [migration name]
  • create new migration with name
  • add the callback function to the up function to use when calling db functions
• db-migrate up [migration name]?
  • run new migrations
• db-migrate down [migration name]
  • reverse a migration

Sample .env

DB_HOST=localhost
DB_USER=root
DB_PASS=password
DB_NAME=testing

Random stuff

use this if can't connect to db on first try

ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED WITH mysql_native_password BY 'PASSWORD';

UPDATED and CREATED

created: {
  type: "datetime",
  defaultValue: new String("CURRENT_TIMESTAMP"),
},
updated: {
  type: "datetime",
  defaultValue: new String("CURRENT_TIMESTAMP ON UPDATE CURRENT_TIMESTAMP")
}