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amacneil
dbmate
Go2018–2024
amacneil / dbmate

dbmate

🚀 A lightweight, framework-agnostic database migration tool.

13Distinct people
17Mentions
2Explicit recommenders
7.5KGitHub stars
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What it is

🚀 A lightweight, framework-agnostic database migration tool.

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

> For example having database migrations built in etc. I actually went the exact opposite route, at least when possible: https://github.com/amacneil/dbmate Pure SQL migrations,…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:49:33 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by year17 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2018-10-01 18:40:33 UTC to 2024-06-16 18:40:50 UTC.

012342018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 1 submissions, 0 comments20182019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 4 mentions; 0 submissions, 4 comments20212022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 3 mentions; 0 submissions, 3 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 1 submissions, 1 comments2024

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC110
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC404
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC303
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC211

What Hacker News says

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We've been using it for about a year in production across four projects and it's been a major boon for productivity because it allows our frontend developers to do simple backend features on their own. I think there are a lot of use cases where it would be a great fit for many projects and there are I'm sure a lot of companies that could save a lot of time by using it as part of their toolkit. Also it doesn't have to be all or nothing. For example, there might be an API endpoint needed where there are multiple mutations needed inside a transaction but we just route between that custom backend and postgrest using nginx. Other things we use: - dbmate for migrations: https://github.com/amacneil/dbmate - postgrest-client, a library I developed for constructing type-safe queries to Postgrest in Elm: https://github.com/alex-tan/postgrest-client
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