Migrations in Sequelize in my own folder structure

Question

I am new to Sequelize and my current project requires me to use it with migrations. I am familiar with migrations what they do and how. I am coming from Django background where each sub app has modals, views, apis, urls and migrations in the same folder. i like the structure and want to keep the same in my nodejs app. i am trying to put a feature at one place. it makes more sense to me.

my structure

|---api
     |---user
     |    |--- api.js
     |    |--- utils.js
     |    |--- models.js
     |    |--- index.js
     |    |--- migrations
     |            |--- xxx123-migration.js
     |            |--- xxx1235-migration.js
     |---payment
          |--- api.js
          |--- utils.js
          |--- models.js
          |--- index.js
          |--- migrations
                  |--- xxx123-migration.js
                  |--- xxx1235-migration.js

now my problem is that i dont know how to m make Sequelize-cli point to my folders and look for migrations to generate and run.

Sequelize-cli generates their own folders for models, config, seeds etc. which I don't want to follow.

any help is appreciated.

Answer 1

EDIT:

after your updated structure , it is not possible to use .sequelizerc file to do so, because it doesn't support multiple migration folder.

You need to create .sequelizerc file at project root to override the default path. see here

If I assume api is the first folder inside project root from your folder structure , the models are in api/user and migrations are in api/user/migrations. The following should work:

const path = require('path');

module.exports = {
  'config': path.resolve('CONFIGPATHHERE', 'sequelize.js'),
  'models-path': path.resolve('api/user', 'sequelize'),
  'migrations-path': path.resolve('api/user', 'migrations')
}

make sure you specify sequelize config path.