Make usable from within node.js app about automigrate HOT 2 CLOSED

okie dokie, as long as you are aware

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hey brandon! thanks for checking out the repo.

I've gotten similar feedback in the past (rewrite in go so it can be distributed as a binary, for example). I think that automig doesn't have enough users right now to justify that amount of work.

You could, potentially, run automig update inside node exec if you have all the python deps in your container.

It sounds like you're running migrations every time an instance of the app starts up, rather than as a side effect of deploys?

I've used automig in a golang repo before -- there I had an entirely separate python Dockerfile that ran as part of deploys. I have an example Dockerfile in the repo, it might be kind of stale now though.

I haven't thought too much about automatic migrations because they can get complicated -- I read this benchling article from last year -- they have things like backwards compatibility checks and pre / post deploy steps depending on whether something is being added or removed.

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