Phase 8 · ORMs & Query Builders
TopicsSchema Definition
Part of the Backend Developer Roadmap.
Summary
Declaring your data models — fields, types, relationships, constraints — in your ORM's format, which then generates or validates against your actual database schema.
How to Learn This
- 1Define a schema with at least one one-to-many and one many-to-many relationship.
- 2Learn how your ORM's schema syntax maps to underlying SQL `CREATE TABLE` statements.
- 3Practice adding a new field to an existing schema and generating the migration.
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