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Prisma Setup

Explore the step-by-step process to set up a Prisma backend with TypeScript and Node.js. Learn to install dependencies, configure PostgreSQL via Docker, define Prisma data models, run migrations, generate the Prisma client, and integrate it with an Express server to build a functional backend application.

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We’ll walk through five basic steps in setting up a Prisma back-end server.

Note: Please ensure Git BASH, Yarn, Docker, and Node are installed.

Create an empty npm directory

We can easily create an empty folder or directory from the command line (or Git Bash on Microsoft Windows).

Shell
mkdir educative-prisma && cd educative-prisma

Next, initiate npm using the -y flag.

Shell
npm init -y

This should create a package.json file at the root directory.

Initialize git

For this step, we initialize git for our repo with the following command:

Shell
git init

Setup a TypeScript Express project

  • Install TypeScript dependencies using the following command:
Shell
yarn add typescript ts-node @types/node express @types/express
  • Create a tsconfig.json file using the following command:
Shell
touch tsconfig.json

This will create an empty tsconfig.json file. Add the below code:

YAML
 {
   "compilerOptions": {
      "strict": true,
      "sourceMap": true,
      "outDir": "dist",
      "esModuleInterop": true,
      "lib": ["esnext"]
      }
 }

Install the Prisma CLI

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