drizzle-kit

What is drizzle-kit?

Drizzle-kit is an npm package designed to simplify database migrations and schema management for JavaScript and TypeScript applications. It provides a set of tools to create, manage, and apply database migrations in a structured and efficient manner.

What are drizzle-kit's main functionalities?

Create Migrations

This feature allows you to create new database migrations. The code sample demonstrates how to create a migration that adds a 'users' table with columns for 'id', 'name', 'email', and timestamps.

const { createMigration } = require('drizzle-kit');

createMigration('add-users-table', (migration) => {
  migration.createTable('users', (table) => {
    table.increments('id').primary();
    table.string('name');
    table.string('email').unique();
    table.timestamps();
  });
});

Apply Migrations

This feature allows you to apply all pending migrations to your database. The code sample shows how to apply migrations using the `applyMigrations` function.

const { applyMigrations } = require('drizzle-kit');

applyMigrations();

Rollback Migrations

This feature allows you to rollback the last applied migration. The code sample demonstrates how to rollback the most recent migration using the `rollbackMigration` function.

const { rollbackMigration } = require('drizzle-kit');

rollbackMigration();

List Migrations

This feature allows you to list all migrations, both applied and pending. The code sample shows how to list migrations using the `listMigrations` function.

const { listMigrations } = require('drizzle-kit');

listMigrations();

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README

Drizzle Kit

Drizzle Kit is a CLI migrator tool for Drizzle ORM. It is probably the one and only tool that lets you completely automatically generate SQL migrations and covers ~95% of the common cases like deletions and renames by prompting user input. https://github.com/drizzle-team/drizzle-kit-mirror - is a mirror repository for issues.

Documentation

Check the full documentation on the website.

How it works

Drizzle Kit traverses a schema module and generates a snapshot to compare with the previous version, if there is one. Based on the difference, it will generate all needed SQL migrations. If there are any cases that can't be resolved automatically, such as renames, it will prompt the user for input.

For example, for this schema module:

// src/db/schema.ts

import { integer, pgTable, serial, text, varchar } from "drizzle-orm/pg-core";

const users = pgTable("users", {
    id: serial("id").primaryKey(),
    fullName: varchar("full_name", { length: 256 }),
  }, (table) => ({
    nameIdx: index("name_idx", table.fullName),
  })
);

export const authOtp = pgTable("auth_otp", {
  id: serial("id").primaryKey(),
  phone: varchar("phone", { length: 256 }),
  userId: integer("user_id").references(() => users.id),
});

It will generate:

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS auth_otp (
 "id" SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
 "phone" character varying(256),
 "user_id" INT
);

CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS users (
 "id" SERIAL PRIMARY KEY,
 "full_name" character varying(256)
);

DO $$ BEGIN
 ALTER TABLE auth_otp ADD CONSTRAINT auth_otp_user_id_fkey FOREIGN KEY ("user_id") REFERENCES users(id);
EXCEPTION
 WHEN duplicate_object THEN null;
END $$;

CREATE INDEX IF NOT EXISTS users_full_name_index ON users (full_name);

Installation & configuration

npm install -D drizzle-kit

Running with CLI options:

// package.json
{
 "scripts": {
  "generate": "drizzle-kit generate --out migrations-folder --schema src/db/schema.ts"
 }
}

npm run generate