FAQ

Why no down migrations?

Always forward never backwards.

Many other migration tools support down (or undo) migrations, but in all the years we have been doing migrations we have never needed to rollback a migration in production, in that case we would just write a new migration to fix the problem.

In our experience the only time down migrations are useful is in development, and in such case you just revert the migration manually and fix the up migration.

The benefit of this is that you don’t have to worry about writing down migrations, and you can focus on writing the up migrations. This way you will only ever have to write down migrations when they are really necessary instead of for every migration (which makes it the exception rather than the rule, which is closer to the truth).

Can I use Emigrate with my existing database?

Yes, you can use Emigrate with an existing database. See the Baseline guide for more information.