Luca Del Puppo - Senior Software Engineer

Prisma the ORM that node was waiting for

Luca Del Puppo

  • Senior Software Engineer
  • Javascript enthusiast
  • Typescript lover
  • “Youtuber”
  • “Writer”

Love sport: running, hiking

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Agenda

  1. What is it?
  2. CLI
  3. Data Modeling
  4. Generation
  1. Client
  2. Migration
  3. Deploy
  4. Conclusion

What is it?

Prisma is an open source next-generation ORM. (Node eco-system)

Prisma Client

Auto-generated and type-safe query builder for Node.js & TypeScript

Prisma Migrate

Migration system

Prisma Studio

GUI to view and edit data in your database

Control

Productivity

Orm

Plain SQL

SQL Builder

Prisma

Healty Constraint

Providers

  • PostgreSQL
  • MySQL
  • SQLite
  • Microsoft SQL Server
  • MongoDB
  • CockroachDB

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CLI

$ npm install prisma

Install CLI

npx prisma init --datasource-provider PostgreSQL

Create Project

Prisma File

generator client {
  provider = "prisma-client-js"
}

datasource db {
  provider = "postgresql"
  url      = env("DATABASE_URL")
}

CLI commands

  • init
  • generate
  • migrate

Data Modelling

Schema

  • One file (schema.prisma)
    • Data sources
    • Generators
    • Data model definition
  • Syntax - PSL (Prisma Schema Language)

 

N.B. Multiple Files is not supported yet

Generator & DataSource

generator client {
  provider = "prisma-client-js"
}

datasource db {
  provider = "postgresql"
  url      = env("DATABASE_URL")
}

Models

model Ingredient {
  id Int @id @default(autoincrement())
  name String
  createdAt DateTime @default(now())
  updatedAt DateTime @updatedAt
  pizzaIngredients PizzaIngredient[]

  @@map("INGREDIENTS")
}

Relations

model PizzaIngredient {
  ingredientId Int
  pizzaId Int
  ingredient Ingredient @relation(fields: [ingredientId], references: [id])
  pizza Pizza @relation(fields: [pizzaId], references: [id])

  @@id([pizzaId, ingredientId])

  @@map("PIZZA_INGREDIENTS")
}

Generation

$ npx prisma generate

Generation

What does it generate?

  • Models
    • Convert Models to Typescript Types
  • Client
  • Query Models (type safe)
    • Constraint to build where clause
    • Constraint to build select
    • Constraint to build insert/update/delete with relation

Generated Type

export type Ingredient = {
  id: number
  name: string
  createdAt: Date
  updatedAt: Date
}

Client

$ npm install @prisma/client

Installation

What does it generate?

const prisma = new PrismaClient();
await prisma.$connect();

const pizza = await prisma.pizza.findUnique({
 where: {
   id: id,
 },
 include: {
      pizzaIngredients: {
      include: {
        ingredient: true,
      },
    },
  },
});

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Crud

SQL\Prisma Single Multiple
Insert create createMany
Update update updateMany
Delete delete deleteMany
Select findUnique/
findFirst		 findMany
Insert/
Update		 upsert

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Aggregation

  • Aggregate
  • Count
  • GroupBy

One for each model

Migration

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Prisma Schema

Prisma CLI

Database

1. update

2. prisma migrate dev

3. read schema

4. database schema

5. generate migration

6. update database

Migration flow

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Prisma Schema

Prisma CLI

Database

2. prisma db pull

Introspection flow

1. Change database schema (SQL)

3. read schema

4. database schema

5. Update

Limitations

  • MongoDb is not supported (use prisma db push)
  • Switch DB Provider is not supported

Seeding

Prisma exposes us a command for seeding the db

  • It runs on
    • prisma migrate dev
    • prisma migrate reset
    • manually
  • It can be written in typescript, go, sql…
  • --skip-seed allows skipping

Deploy

$ npx prisma migrate deploy

N.B. Use a CI/CD flow for your deployment

Demo

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Conclusion

Cons

  • Newby
  • Don’t manage multiple provider concurrency
  • Splitting schema not implemented out-of-the-box (prisma-aurora)

Pros

  • Wonderful developer experience
  • Type safe queries
  • Migrations
  • Custom queries
  • Active Community
  • Awesome documentation
  • Core team active in Github and Slack

Slides

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Prisma Series

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We are hiring

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Luca Del Puppo

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