🎒 Code Migrate

A framework for writing codebase migrations on JavaScript/NodeJS based projects

Why

Writing an automatic migration script usually takes time. Besides implementing the transformations to the code/configuration, you also need to handle other concerns like publishing a CLI application, generating a report, handling errors during the migration process, writing tests, and more.

Providing a polished experience usually results in a lot of work which we can not always justify. In some cases, maintainers resort to either API stagnation or leaving the heavy lifting to their users. If you're maintaining a library or a toolkit, you'd want your users to upgrade with minimal effort. And you want to write the migration script in a minimal amount of time.

Features

• Declarative way to define your migration tasks, leaving you with focusing only on the transformation logic.

• The migration is separated into two parts, the first one is processing all of the tasks and the second is writing them to the file-system. This ensures that in case of an error, nothing will be written to the file-system. It also lets the user approve the migration via a prompt from the CLI.

• Even though nothing is written while processing the tasks, all file system operations are written to a virtual file system which makes sure that tasks that depend on each other will work as expected. For example, if you change a file on the first task, the second task will see its updated version.

• Code Migrate creates a beautiful report of the changes sorted by tasks.

• There is a testkit that helps with the process of writing the migration. You can define __before__ and __after__ directories and use TDD to implement the migration with fewer mistakes and with a quick feedback loop.

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• CLI
• Node API
  • createCli
  • runMigration
• Writing a migration file
  • migrate
  • tasks
    • transform
    • rename
    • remove
    • create
  • options
    • fs
    • cwd
• Testing
  • createTestkit
  • testkit.test
  • testkit.run
• Aborting a transformation

CLI

  Usage
    $ npx code-migrate <path/to/migration.ts>

  Options
    --version, -v   Version number
    --help, -h      Displays this message
    --dry, -d       Dry-run mode, does not modify files
    --yes, -y       Skip all confirmation prompts
    --cwd           Runs the migration on this directory [defaults to process.cwd()]
    --reporter      Choose a reporter ("default"/"quiet"/"markdown"/"path/to/custom/reporter")
    --reportFile    Create a markdown report and output it to a file [for example "report.md"]

Node API

createCli

Create a CLI application that runs your migration. You should create a bin file and configure it through npm, from that file, call the createCli function to create the CLI that runs your migration.

type CreateCli = ({
  binName: string;
  migrationFile?: string;
  version: string;
  subCommands?: Record<string, { migrationFile: string }>;
}) => Promise<void>

subCommands

The migrationFile provided on for createCli functions as the default command

If you want your CLI to include sub commands, for example my-migration-cli foo you can define it like that:

createCli({
  binName: 'my-migration-cli',
  version: require('package.json').version,
  subCommands: {
    foo: {
      migrationFile: './path/to/foo.js'
    }
  }
})

runMigration

Run a migration programatically, you can also create a custom CLI or run through node API using the runMigration function.

type RunMigration = ({
  cwd: string;
  migrationFilePath: string;
  dry: boolean;
  yes: boolean;
  quite: boolean
  reportFile: string;
}) => Promise<void>;

Writing a migration file

write a js/ts file that call the migrate function.

// migration.ts
import { migrate } from 'code-migrate';

migrate(
  'automatic migration for my library',
  ({ transform, rename, create, remove }) => {
    transform(
      'add the build directory to .gitignore',
      '.gitignore',
      ({ source }) => source.trim() + '\nbuild\n'
    );

    transform(
      'remove "use strict"; from all .js files',
      '**/*.js',
      ({ source }) => {
        return source.replace(/("|')use strict("|');?/, '');
      }
    );

    remove('remove babel config', 'babel.config.js');

    rename('rename the main config to cool config', 'main-config.json', () => {
      return 'cool-config.json';
    });

    create('create an .env file', () => {
      return {
        fileName: '.env',
        source: 'HELLO=WORLD\n',
      };
    });
  }
);

NOTE: if you decide to use TypeScript, code-migrate will use a tsconfig.json file relative to the migration file, don't forget to add tsconfig.json to the files array in package.json so it will be used in the migrations

Use with global migrate function

The code-migrate runner does not require that you'll import the migrate function, it will also work on the global:

migrate('example migration', ({ create }) => {
  create('add foo.json file', () => {
    return { fileName: 'foo.json', source: JSON.stringify({ foo: 'bar' }) };
  });
});

For TypeScript and autocompletion add this line to any d.ts file required in your tsconfig.json files/include arrays.

declare let migrate: import('code-migrate').Migrate;

migrate

Similar to the way test runners work, Code Migrate will expose a global migrate function, you can also import it from code-migrate module, which will only work in the context of the runner. Use it to define your migration tasks.

type Migrate = (
  title: string,
  fn: (
    tasks: {
      transform: Transform,
      rename: Rename,
      remove: Remove,
      create: Create
    },
    options: { cwd: string, fs: VirtualFileSystem }
  ) => void
) => void;

tasks

migration is defined by a series of tasks from the following list

transform

Change the source code of a file or multiple files

type Transform = (
  title: string,
  pattern: Pattern,
  transformFn: TransformFn
) => void;

type TransformFn = ({
  fileName: string;
  source: string;
  abort: () => void
}) => string | SerializeableJsonObject;

rename

Change the name of a file/directory or multiple files/directories

type Rename = (
  title: string,
  pattern: Pattern,
  renameFn: RenameFn
) => void;

type RenameFn = ({ fileName: string }) => string;

remove

Delete a file/directory or multiple files/directories

type Remove = (title: string, pattern: Pattern, fn: removeFn) => void;

type RemoveFn = ({ source: string; fileName: string }) => void;

create

Create a new file/directory or multiple files/directories

type Create = (
  title: string,
  patternOrCreateFn: EmptyCreateFn | Pattern,
  createFn?: CreateFn
) => void;

options

fs

Virtual file System which implements a subset of the fs module API. You can use it to perform custom file system operations that will be part of the migration process. They will only be written at the end of the migration and will relay on former tasks.

cwd

The working directory in which the migration currently runs.

Testing

Code Migrate comes with a testkit that lets you write tests for your migration. Use jest or any other test runner to run your suite:

You'll need to create fixtures of the __before__ and the __after__ states, the testkit expects those directories and knows how to accept a migration file and a fixtures directory as parameters.

Let's consider the following file structure:

.
├── __after__
│       └── bar.json
├── __before__
│       └── foo.json
├── migration.test.ts
└── migration.ts

And the following migration file:

// migration.ts

migrate('my migration', ({ transform }) => {
  rename(
      'replace foo with bar in all json files',
      '**/*.json',
      ({ filename }) => filename.replace('foo', 'bar');
    );
});

createTestkit

createTestkit({ migrationFile: string, command: string[] })

The test initializes the testkit which accepts an optional path to the migration file, otherwise, looks for a migration.ts file in the fixture directory.

There is an optional command property, when used code-migrate will run a command instead of the testkit, this also tests the CLI in an e2e manner.

To run the following command

$ node /absolute/path/to/bin.js -y

Initialize the testkit with the following command property:

command: ['node', '/absolute/path/to/bin.js', '-y']

testkit.test

testkit.test({ fixtures: string, title?: string })

Creates a test supporting jest, mocha & jasmine

// migration.test.ts

import { createTestkit } from 'code-migrate/testing';
import path from 'path';

createTestkit({ migrationFile: 'migration.ts' }).test({
  fixtures: __dirname,
  title: 'should rename foo.json to bar.json'
});

testkit.run

testkit.run({ fixtures: string })

Notice that this method is async, and therefore needs to be returned or awaited

// migration.test.ts

import { createTestkit } from 'code-migrate/testing';
import path from 'path';

const testkit = createTestkit({
  migrationFile: path.join(__dirname, 'migration.ts'),
});

it('should rename foo.json to bar.json', async () => {
  await testkit.run({ fixtures: __dirname });
});

Aborting a transformation

There are cases that you would like to abort the whole transformation in case a single file failed. In this case you'll have the abort function. Calling it will abort the whole transfomation, this also means that files that were already processed won't be written to the fileSystem.

transform(
  'attempt to migrate something complex',
  '**/*.js',
  ({ source, abort }) => {
    const result = tryMigratingSomething(source)
    
    // In case a single file didn't pass
    // We want to abort and don't change any *.js file
    if (result.pass === false) {
      abort();
    }

    return result.source;
  }
);