ASP.NET Core 3 and React

Configuring DbUp to do migrations on app startup

Now that we have DbUp installed into our project, let's get it to do database migrations when the app starts up:

1. Open up Startup.cs. We know from Chapter 1, Understanding the ASP.NET Core React Template, that code in this file executes when an ASP.NET Core app runs up. We'll start by adding a using statement so that we can reference the DbUp library:

using DbUp;

2. In the ConfigureServices method, add the following two lines:

public void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services){  var connectionString =     Configuration.GetConnectionString("DefaultConnection");    EnsureDatabase.For.SqlDatabase(connectionString);   // TODO - Create and configure an instance of the DbUp upgrader // TODO - Do ...