redux-persist migrations in TypeScript with a little help from patch-package

persistMigration.ts

import { createMigrate } from 'redux-persist';

import { RootState } from './modules/reducer';

/*
 * Latest version (V3) is simply the currently used redux RootState.
 */
type PersistedRootStateV3 = RootState;

/*
 * Previous versions can be built from advanced types, working backward from current;
 * in this example a field was added at `slice.newField` when going from V2 to V3,
 * so to get V2's shape we take everything except that field from V3.
 */
type PersistedRootStateV2 = Omit<PersistedRootStateV3, 'slice'> & {
	slice: Omit<PersistedRootStateV2['slice'], 'newField'>;
};

/*
 * The entire `slice` reducer was added when going from V1 to V2, so omit it from the
 * V2 definition. This approach of building incrementally backwards also means that we
 * don't have to update all of the old state types each time we add a new migration.
 */
type PersistedRootStateV1 = Omit<PersistedRootStateV2, 'slice'>;

/*
 * Each migration step will take one version as input and return the next version as output.
 * (The key `2` means that it is the step which migrates from V1 to V2.)
 */
const persistMigrations = {
	2: (state: PersistedRootStateV1): PersistedRootStateV2 => ({
		...state,
		slice: { // Introduce new `slice`.
			someField: 0,
			someOtherField: [],
		},
	}),
	3: async (state: PersistedRootStateV2): Promise<PersistedRootStateV3> => {
		return {
			...state,
			slice: {
				...state.slice,
				newField: {}, // Add `newField` to `slice`.
			},
		};
	},
};

/*
 * A union type is created specifically to use below.
 */
type MigrationState = PersistedRootStateV1 | PersistedRootStateV2 | PersistedRootStateV3

/*
 * The union type is used as the generic for `createMigrate`. The type must be explicitly
 * provided. Relying on type inference here would fail because it would assume {}.
 */
export const persistMigrate = createMigrate<MigrationState>(persistMigrations);
  
/*
 * This is the current version and should match the latest version above (V3).
 */
export const persistVersion = 3;

redux-persist+6.0.0.patch

diff --git a/node_modules/redux-persist/types/createMigrate.d.ts b/node_modules/redux-persist/types/createMigrate.d.ts
index 2c1329d..2e4cd57 100644
--- a/node_modules/redux-persist/types/createMigrate.d.ts
+++ b/node_modules/redux-persist/types/createMigrate.d.ts
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ declare module "redux-persist/es/createMigrate" {
    * @param config migration configuration
    */
   // tslint:disable-next-line: strict-export-declare-modifiers
-  export default function createMigrate(migrations: MigrationManifest, config?: MigrationConfig): PersistMigrate;
+  export default function createMigrate<T extends {}>(migrations: MigrationManifest<T>, config?: MigrationConfig): PersistMigrate;
 }
 
 declare module "redux-persist/lib/createMigrate" {
diff --git a/node_modules/redux-persist/types/types.d.ts b/node_modules/redux-persist/types/types.d.ts
index b3733bc..f8106cb 100644
--- a/node_modules/redux-persist/types/types.d.ts
+++ b/node_modules/redux-persist/types/types.d.ts
@@ -72,9 +72,9 @@ declare module "redux-persist/es/types" {
     removeItem(key: string): Promise<void>;
   }
 
-  interface MigrationManifest {
-    [key: string]: (state: PersistedState) => PersistedState;
-  }
+  type MigrationFunction<T extends {}, U extends {} = T> = T extends infer V ? U extends infer W ? (state: V) => W | Promise<W> : never : never;
+
+  type MigrationManifest<T extends {}> = Record<string, MigrationFunction<T>>;
 
   /**
    * @desc

store.ts

/* ... */

import { persistReducer } from 'redux-persist';
import AsyncStorage from '@react-native-community/async-storage';

import { persistVersion, persistMigrate } from './persistMigrations';

/* ... */

const persistConfig = {
	key: 'root',
	storage: AsyncStorage,
	whitelist: [
		'slice',
		/* ... */
	],
	version: persistVersion,
	migrate: persistMigrate,
};

const persistedRootReducer = persistReducer(persistConfig, rootReducer);

/* ... and so on, creating the store as usual */

Over time I've actually found it easier to just wipe the entire store when I have breaking migrations. Perhaps not the smoothest user experience, but less bookkeeping

I'm at a point where I'm forced to agree 😅