Hi Noctisy! You most likely skipped installing an auth guard during your project's creation (this is a new question during project creation that was added after we released our lesson). You can get this easily added in by installing and configuring the AdonisJS Auth package!

node ace add @adonisjs/auth --guard=session

  

    

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https://docs.adonisjs.com/guides/authentication/introduction#installation

Hey Hexacker!

In AdonisJS, migrations are what create our tables, foreign keys, indexes, etc. Migrations are great because they give us control to incrementally build or update our database as we need in the order we need. Most of the time, in starting an application, it'll seem tedious. But, as your application ages, they're fantastic for maintaining flexibility.

For example, if I have a pre-existing database with a histories table that holds two types of histories, view history and progression history. As the app ages, if I decide it'd behoove me to have this one table split into two, I can easily use migrations to create a view_histories table and a progression_histories table. Then, in those same migrations, I can fill them directly with data from the histories table. Then, delete the histories table. These changes would take 3 migrations, which are run one after another at the same time my application with the needed code updates are deploying.

1. create_view_histories_table
   Creates the view_histories table, then uses the defer method to populate it with pre-existing view histories from the histories table.

2. create_progression_histories_table
   Creates the progression_histories table, then uses the defer method to populate it with pre-existing progression histories from the histories table.

3. delete_histories_table
   Drops the no longer needed histories table

Models then, are strictly used to aide in CRUD operations inside our code. At present, there is no official way to generate migrations nor models. However, I do have a package in dev release to generate models from a database.

Fun fact, the migration example above is based on a refactor I did on the Adocasts site.