Phase 8 · ORMs & Query Builders

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Migrations with ORMs

Part of the Backend Developer Roadmap.

Summary

Using your ORM's built-in migration tooling to version-control schema changes, instead of managing raw SQL migration scripts by hand.

How to Learn This

  • 1Add a field to a model and generate the corresponding migration with your ORM's CLI.
  • 2Learn how to review a generated migration before running it in production.
  • 3Practice rolling back a migration and understand what could go wrong doing so on live data.
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