Generate DDL Files

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Is there a way to generate a DDL file from the source code / or the database? I’m not able to find anything like it.

Our goal is to generate the schema from the source code for a specific database. Then pass those files to our DBs for creating the schema + tables on the production db. (there is no other way for us to do it 😦 )

Any ideas on how this can be done?

[imnotjames]

Is anybody looking into this? Is there a way that we could get this done?

We’re always accepting pull requests 😃

[nvander1]

Our team would also love to see this feature. We have been using a workaround by launching our application and telling TypeOrm to synchronize the database. But this is clunky for us, and would also love the ability to generate the DDLs.

I assume this is possible since TypeORM executes create table statements for you, but I’m not sure of the scope of code change involved that would allow this behavior.

@pleerock @AlexMesser @daniel-lang @rustamwin @iz-iznogood