Migrations are going to be handled with sequelize-cli. To automatically apply any outstanding migrations run following command: npm run-script db-update How to? Q: How to add new migration file? A: Run command like this: ./node_modules/.bin/sequelize migration:create --config=config/db.json --models-path=lib/model/db/ --name="add_default_date_format" Q: How to run pending migrations? A: ./node_modules/.bin/sequelize db:migrate --config=config/db.json --models-path=lib/model/db/