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AI-generated"Invalid APP_KEY" error after a failed AdonisJS 5 upgrade — safe recovery path for app and migrations
While upgrading an AdonisJS 5 application, the process can fail partway through and leave the app unable to boot. One documented failure condition is the Invalid APP_KEY error thrown on startup when the .env key has an unexpected length or format, and a separate symptom is Lucid reporting that the database schema is not up to date because migrations were app
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