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gofr migrate create

The migrate create command generates a migration template file with pre-defined structure in your migrations directory. This boilerplate code helps you maintain consistent patterns when writing database schema modifications across your project.

Command Usage

Bash
  gofr migrate create -name=<migration-name>

Example Usage

Bash
gofr migrate create -name=create_employee_table

This command generates a migration directory which has the below files:

  1. A new migration file with timestamp prefix (e.g., 20250127152047_create_employee_table.go) containing:
Go
package migrations

import (
  "gofr.dev/pkg/gofr/migration"
)

func create_employee_table() migration.Migrate {
  return migration.Migrate{
    UP: func(d migration.Datasource) error {
      // write your migrations here
      return nil
    },
  }
}
  1. An auto-generated all.go file that maintains a registry of all migrations:
Go
// This is auto-generated file using 'gofr migrate' tool. DO NOT EDIT.
package migrations

import (
  "gofr.dev/pkg/gofr/migration"
)

func All() map[int64]migration.Migrate {
  return map[int64]migration.Migrate {
    20250127152047: create_employee_table(),
  }
}

💡 Best Practice: Learn about organizing migrations by feature to avoid creating one migration per table or operation.

For detailed instructions on handling database migrations, see the handling-data-migrations documentation For more examples, see the using-migrations

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