Setting up Prisma

Install prisma using

npm install prisma --save-dev

Prisma CLI to bootstrap a Prisma setup

npx prisma init

It will create the following files and a new prisma directory:

• schema.prisma: your main configuration that contains the db schema
• .env: for database credentials and sensitive info eg your connection URL

To create the tables in you db use the command of Prisma CLI

npx prisma db push --preview-feature

To use the GUI run

npx prisma studio

Installing and generating Prisma Client

To access your database using prisma or any framework install the Prisma client in your app via npm

npm install @prisma/client

Because Prisma client is tailored to your own schema, you need to update it every time your prisma schema file is changing by running this comman

npx prisma generate

You will use a single PrismaClient instance that you can import anywhere on your app when you need it. The install will be created as prisma.ts inside the lib/

To create it

mkdir lib && touch lib/prisma.ts

Now add the following code to this file:

// lib/prisma.ts
import { PrismaClient } from '@prisma/client';

let prisma: PrismaClient;

if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production') {
    prisma = new PrismaClient();
} else {
    if (!global.prisma) {
        global.prisma = new PrismaClient();
    }
    prisma = global.prisma;
}

export default prisma;

This code errors on production because of the property prisma does not exist on global to solve this issue. you can visit the this solution here.

Now the code will be like this

import { PrismaClient } from '@prisma/client';

let prisma: PrismaClient;

declare global {
    namespace NodeJS {
        interface Global {
            prisma: any;
        }
    }
}

if (process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production') {
    prisma = new PrismaClient();
} else {
    if (!global.prisma) {
        global.prisma = new PrismaClient();
    }

    prisma = global.prisma;
}

export default prisma;

And your good to go.