Migratex

Migratex is an agnostic migration toolkit library.

Migrate anything! Anywhere! 🚀

💪 It can be used to migrate database / data / files / binaries, etc from one version to another.

• ✅ Easy to use
• ✅ Agnostic
• ✅ Standalone
• ✅ Async
• ✅ Easy to extend
• ✅ Easy to use with any storage (DB, file, etc)
• ✅ Easy to use with any migration type
• ✅ Minimal boilerplate - Ready-to-use metadata stores

Simple and intuitive API: migrate_up, migrate_down, migrate_to, migrate_to_latest, migrate_to_zero, latest_version, metadata, etc.

Quick Start

With JSON file storage

use migratex::{JsonMetadata, Migratex};

// Load or initialize metadata
let mut meta = JsonMetadata::load_or_init("metadata.json")?;

// Run migrations
let mut mx = Migratex::new(&mut ctx, &mut meta, migrations);

mx.migrate_to_latest().await?;

// Save metadata
meta.save("metadata.json")?;

With SQLite storage

use std::sync::Arc;
use std::path::PathBuf;

use migratex::{SqliteMetadata, SqliteStorage, connect_to_sqlite, Migratex};

// Connect to database
let pool = connect_to_sqlite(PathBuf::from("app.db")).await?;
let storage = SqliteStorage::new(Arc::new(pool));

// Load or initialize metadata
let mut meta = SqliteMetadata::load_or_init(&storage).await?;

// Run migrations
let mut mx = Migratex::new(&mut ctx, &mut meta, migrations);

mx.migrate_to_latest().await?;

// Save metadata
meta.save(&storage).await?;

Examples

Look at the examples:

• json example - JSON file-based metadata storage
• sqlx example - SQLite database metadata storage
• custom example - Custom metadata implementation

Usage

Add this to your Cargo.toml:

[dependencies]
migratex = "*"

Put the latest version of migratex in your Cargo.toml!

Features

JSON

Enable the json feature for JSON file-based metadata storage:

[dependencies]
migratex = { version = "*", features = ["json"] }

This provides the JsonMetadata struct for storing metadata in a JSON file.

SQLx

Enable the sqlx feature for SQLite database metadata storage:

[dependencies]
migratex = { version = "*", features = ["sqlx"] }

Put the latest version of migratex in your Cargo.toml!

This provides:

• SqliteMetadata - Metadata stored in a SQLite table
• SqliteStorage - Storage configuration
• connect_to_sqlite() - Helper function to connect to SQLite database

Note: Other database drivers can be implemented by implementing the Metadata trait (look at SQLite implementation for inspiration).

Custom Metadata Storage

You can implement your own metadata storage by implementing the Metadata trait:

use migratex::{Metadata, MetaStatus};

#[derive(Debug, Clone)]
pub struct CustomMetadata {
    pub version: i32,
    pub status: MetaStatus,
    pub app_version: String,
    pub created_at: String,
    pub updated_at: String,
}

impl CustomMetadata {
    pub fn load_or_init(path: impl AsRef<Path>) -> Result<Self> {
        // Your custom implementation
    }

    pub fn save(&self, path: impl AsRef<Path>) -> Result<()> {
        // Your custom implementation
    }
}

impl Metadata for CustomMetadata {
    migratex::metadata_accessors!();
}

See the custom example for a complete implementation.

Tests

Run all tests:

cargo test --all-features

Notes

• This library is in its early stages, so expect minor breaking changes.
• okerr is used for error handling (100% compatible with anyhow), this should work properly with any error-handling library.

LICENSE

MIT (c) 2025, Nicolas Talle.

Author

• Nicolas Talle
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/ntalle/

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