knex-seed

Helper function to insert or update seed data with ease using knex.

Installation

npm i knex-seed

Usage Example

import { Knex } from 'knex'
import { seedRow } from 'knex-seed'

export async function seed(knex: Knex): Promise<void> {
  let teacher_alice_id = await seedRow(
    knex,
    'teacher',
    { email: '[e-mail]' },
    { name: 'Alice', course: 'Yoga' },
  )

  await seedRow(
    knex,
    'student',
    { tel: '98765432' },
    { name: 'Bob', teacher_id: teacher_alice_id },
  )
  await seedRow(
    knex,
    'student',
    { tel: '65432198' },
    { name: 'Charlie', teacher_id: teacher_alice_id },
  )
}

Typescript Signature

import { Knex } from 'knex'

export function seedRow(
  knex: Knex,
  table: string,
  filter: object,
  extraData?: object,
): Promise<number>

License

This project is licensed with BSD-2-Clause

This is free, libre, and open-source software. It comes down to four essential freedoms [ref]:

• The freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose
• The freedom to study how the program works, and change it so it does your computing as you wish
• The freedom to redistribute copies so you can help others
• The freedom to distribute copies of your modified versions to others