Database migrations in Beego
A few weeks ago I wrote an article showing how to start a simple Beego server. Today I’m going to go a little further and explain how to start building your database using migrations. For my examples I will use a MySQL server with an empty database (no tables) named beego.
It is possible to just log in to a database server and type the SQL commands necessary to create or modify tables when we need to, but using migrations helps keep track of the changes made to the database over time. This provides something similar to version control at the database level.
If we need to create a new table, we would start by creating a new migration file using the bee tool:
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bee generate migration create_user_table