Prisma is an open-source database toolkit. It replaces traditional ORMs and makes database access easy with an auto-generated query builder for TypeScript & Node.js.

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This collection explores one of the most promising and coolest releases of early 2020 - prisma v2. First part of the prisma infrastructure to exit experimental mode - prisma client is an auto-generated and type-safe query builder for Node.js & TypeScript. We will explore and learn it  in this collection!

In this tutorial we will spin the docker container with official postgres image and access the database with `psql` to set up an easy playground for PostgreSQL relational database.


Run postgres database in docker container

In this lesson you write initial boilerplate for prisma (spoiler: it's not bigger than this summary) with typescript infrastructure.

Create new project with prisma

In this lesson you will learn how to connect your prisma to postgres db to be able to introspect it. We will also go trough the models and touch prisma naming convention.

Connect prisma to PostgreSQL database running in docker container

In this lesson you will learn how to generate type safe orm client with `prisma generate` and do first write operation using it.

Generate type safe client with prisma

In this lesson you will learn how to perform the simplest `findOne` and `findMany` read operations from postgres database using prisma client.

Perform read operations using prisma client

In this lesson you will learn how to perform the  `update`  operations on postgres table entries using prisma client.

Perform update operations using prisma client

In this lesson you will learn how to perform the `delete` operations on postgres database table entries using prisma client.

Perform delete operations with prisma client

In most of cases your database schema won't stay the same for too long - let's learn how to update the prisma client so it has access to all of the additions made to the postgress

Get started with Prisma v2. Prisma Client

Dimitri Ivashchuk

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