sequelize/cli

The Sequelize Command Line Interface (CLI)

Installation

Install this globally and you'll have access to the sequelize command anywhere on your system.

npm install -g sequelize-cli

or install it locally to your node_modules folder

npm install --save sequelize-cli

Global Install Usage

$ sequelize [--HARMONY-FLAGS]

Sequelize [Node: 2.5.0, CLI: 1.8.3, ORM: 2.1.3]

Usage
  sequelize [task]

Available tasks
  db:migrate             Run pending migrations.
  db:migrate:old_schema  Update legacy migration table
  db:migrate:undo        Revert the last migration run.
  db:migrate:undo:all    Revert all migrations ran.
  db:seed                Run seeders.
  db:seed:undo           Deletes data from the database.
  db:seed:undo:all       Deletes data from the database.
  help                   Display this help text. Aliases: h
  init                   Initializes the project.
  init:config            Initializes the configuration.
  init:migrations        Initializes the migrations.
  init:models            Initializes the models.
  init:seeders           Initializes the seeders.
  migration:create       Generates a new migration file. Aliases: migration:generate
  model:create           Generates a model and its migration. Aliases: model:generate
  seed:create            Generates a new seed file. Aliases: seed:generate
  version                Prints the version number. Aliases: v

Available manuals
  help:db:migrate             The documentation for "sequelize db:migrate".
  help:db:migrate:old_schema  The documentation for "sequelize db:migrate:old_schema".
  help:db:migrate:undo        The documentation for "sequelize db:migrate:undo".
  help:db:migrate:undo:all    The documentation for "sequelize db:migrate:undo:all".
  help:db:seed                The documentation for "sequelize db:seed".
  help:db:seed:undo           The documentation for "sequelize db:seed:undo".
  help:db:seed:undo:all       The documentation for "sequelize db:seed:undo:all".
  help:init                   The documentation for "sequelize init".
  help:init:config            The documentation for "sequelize init:config".
  help:init:migrations        The documentation for "sequelize init:migrations".
  help:init:models            The documentation for "sequelize init:models".
  help:init:seeders           The documentation for "sequelize init:seeders".
  help:migration:create       The documentation for "sequelize migration:create".
  help:model:create           The documentation for "sequelize model:create".
  help:seed:create            The documentation for "sequelize seed:create".
  help:version                The documentation for "sequelize version".

Local Install Usage

$ node_modules/.bin/sequelize [--HARMONY-FLAGS]

Options

The manuals will show all the flags and options which are available for the respective tasks. If you find yourself in a situation where you always define certain flags in order to make the CLI compliant to your project, you can move those definitions also into a file called .sequelizerc. The file will get required if available and can therefore be either a JSON file or a Node.JS script that exports a hash.

Example for a Node.JS script

var path = require('path')

module.exports = {
  'config':          path.resolve('config', 'database.json'),
  'migrations-path': path.resolve('db', 'migrate')
}

This will configure the CLI to always treat config/database.json as config file and db/migrate as the directory for migrations.

CoffeeScript support

The CLI is compatible with CoffeeScript. You can tell the CLI to enable that support via the --coffee flag. Please note that you'll need to install js2coffee and coffee-script for full support.

Configuration file

By default the CLI will try to use the file config/config.js and config/config.json. You can modify that path either via the --config flag or via the option mentioned earlier. Here is how a configuration file might look like (this is the one that sequelize init generates):

{
  "development": {
    "username": "root",
    "password": null,
    "database": "database_development",
    "host": "127.0.0.1",
    "dialect": "mysql"
  },
  "test": {
    "username": "root",
    "password": null,
    "database": "database_test",
    "host": "127.0.0.1",
    "dialect": "mysql"
  },
  "production": {
    "username": "root",
    "password": null,
    "database": "database_production",
    "host": "127.0.0.1",
    "dialect": "mysql"
  }
}

The properties can also be combined to a url:

{
  "development":  {
    "url": "mysql://root:password@mysql_host.com/database_name",
    "dialect": "mysql"
  }
}

In case of a JS file it obviously needs to module.exports the object. Optionally, it's possible to put all the configuration to the url option. The format is explained in the section below.

Configuration Connection String

As an alternative to the --config option with configuration files defining your database, you can use the --url option to pass in a connection string. For example:

sequelize db:migrate --url 'mysql://root:password@mysql_host.com/database_name'

Configuration Connection Environment Variable

Another possibility is to store the URL in an environment variable and to tell the CLI to lookup a certain variable during runtime. Let's assume you have an environment variable called DB_CONNECTION_STRING which stores the value mysql://root:password@mysql_host.com/database_name. In order to make the CLI use it, you have to use declare it in your config file:

{
    "production": {
        "use_env_variable": "DB_CONNECTION_STRING"
    }
}

With v2.0.0 of the CLI you can also just directly access the environment variables inside the config/config.js:

module.exports = {
    "production": {
        "hostname": process.env.DB_HOSTNAME
    }
}

Storage

There are three types of storage that you can use: sequelize, json, and none.

• sequelize : stores migrations and seeds in a table on the sequelize database
• json : stores migrations and seeds on a json file
• none : does not store any migration/seed

Migration

By default the CLI will create a table in your database called SequelizeMeta containing an entry for each executed migration. To change this behavior, there are three options you can add to the configuration file. Using migrationStorage, you can choose the type of storage to be used for migrations. If you choose json, you can specify the path of the file using migrationStoragePath or the CLI will write to the file sequelize-meta.json. If you want to keep the information in the database, using sequelize, but want to use a different table, you can change the table name using migrationStorageTableName.

{
  "development": {
    "username": "root",
    "password": null,
    "database": "database_development",
    "host": "127.0.0.1",
    "dialect": "mysql",

    // Use a different storage type. Default: sequelize
    "migrationStorage": "json",

    // Use a different file name. Default: sequelize-meta.json
    "migrationStoragePath": "sequelizeMeta.json"

    // Use a different table name. Default: SequelizeMeta
    "migrationStorageTableName": "sequelize_meta"
  }
}

NOTE: The none storage is not recommended as a migration storage. If you decide to use it, be aware of the implications of having no record of what migrations did or didn't run.

Seed

By default the CLI will not save any seed that is executed. If you choose to change this behavior (!), you can use seederStorage in the configuration file to change the storage type. If you choose json, you can specify the path of the file using seederStoragePath or the CLI will write to the file sequelize-data.json. If you want to keep the information in the database, using sequelize, you can specify the table name using seederStorageTableName, or it will default to SequelizeData.

{
  "development": {
    "username": "root",
    "password": null,
    "database": "database_development",
    "host": "127.0.0.1",
    "dialect": "mysql",
    // Use a different storage. Default: none
    "seederStorage": "json",
    // Use a different file name. Default: sequelize-data.json
    "seederStoragePath": "sequelizeData.json"
    // Use a different table name. Default: SequelizeData
    "seederStorageTableName": "sequelize_data"
  }
}

Dialect specific options

In order to pass options to the underlying database connectors, you can add the property dialectOptions to your configuration like this:

var fs = require('fs');

module.exports = {
  development: {
    dialect: 'mysql',
    dialectOptions: {
      ssl: {
        ca: fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/mysql-ca.crt')
      }
    }
  }
};

Schema migration

Since v1.0.0 the CLI supports a new schema for saving the executed migrations. It will tell you about that when you run a migration while having the old schema. You can opt-in for auto migrating the schema by adding a special property to your config file:

{
  "development": {
    "autoMigrateOldSchema": true
  }
}

The migration schema

The CLI uses umzug and it's migration schema. This means a migration has too look like this:

"use strict";

module.exports = {
  up: function(queryInterface, Sequelize, done) {
    done();
  },

  down: function(queryInterface) {
    return new Promise(function (resolve, reject) {
      resolve();
    });
  }
};

Please note that you can either return a Promise or call the third argument of the function once your asynchronous logic was executed. If you pass something to the callback function (the done function) it will be treated as erroneous execution.

Additional note: If you need to access the sequelize instance, you can easily do that via queryInterface.sequelize.

Help

Read the manuals via sequelize help:<task-name> for further information.