Feathers JS. How to write custom CLI method to seed Mongoose models

Question

I would like to write a custom method for @feathers/cli to seed the database with some initial data. Can somebody please point me the direction to conveniently extend @feathers/cli? Basically, the method should connect to feathers app and try to add records to models with service.create({data}) calls.

Or is there any better way to seed and validate data to Feathers models? I use Feathers-mongoose adapter.

Answer 1

You can easily create your own seed scripts by requiring your app.js. E.g. in seed.js:

const app = require('../src/app');

(async () => {
  app.setup();
  // If you are using Sequelize:
  // await app.get('sequelizeSync');
  
  const user = await app.service('users').create({
    email: 'test@user.com',
    password: 'supersecret'
  });
  // Do other things here
})();

Then you can run it with node seed