How to use Prisma Postgres 🚀

Introduction

On October 29, Prisma announced Prisma Postgres. Don't hesitate to read the blog, useful information! 🙌

It is built from the ground up and deployed via unikernels (think: hyper-specialized OS) that are running as ultra-lightweight microVMs on our own bare metal servers.

Thanks to that architecture, we’re able to offer unique benefits that you don’t get anywhere else:

• A “serverless” database with pay-as-you-go pricing but no cold starts.
• A generous free tier that you can use to explore the service and build small projects.
• Thanks to the first-class integration with other Prisma products, you also get the following features out-of-the-box:
  • Real-time database event streams
  • Connection pooling
  • Caching
  • Query analysis and recommendations

Quick video presentation

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How to use Prisma Postgres

Getting started: Get a new database

If you want, you have the Quickstart documentation about installing Prisma.

1. Login into your Prisma Console account (it's free)
2. Create a new project by clicking on the New project button
3. Give it a beautiful name
4. In the Prisma Postgres section, click to Get started
5. Select a region, and click to Create project
6. You now have your database ! 🥳

Setup your project

1. Open your terminal

2. Execute this command if you want a template
   

   npx try-prisma@latest --template databases/prisma-postgres --name hello-prisma --install npm
   

3. Install dependencies
   

   thomasbnt@thomasbnt:~/lab$ npx try-prisma@latest --template databases/prisma-postgres --name beautiful-project --install npm
   Need to install the following packages:
   try-prisma@1.0.58
   Ok to proceed? (y) y
   ✔ Loaded 59 templates
   ✔ Downloaded and extracted the databases/prisma-postgres project in ./beautiful-project.
   ✔ Installed packages in ./beautiful-project.
   The project is good to go! Next steps:
   1. Navigate into ./beautiful-project to begin.
   2. Refer to the project README for detailed instructions on running the project:
   https://github.com/prisma/prisma-examples/tree/latest/databases/prisma-postgres
   If you have any feedback about this specific template, we want to hear it!
   Submit any feedback here: https://pris.ly/prisma-examples-feedback
   thomasbnt@thomasbnt:~/lab$ cd beautiful-project/
   

4. Click on Generate database credentials and copying and pasting into your .env file in your project folder, but keep it private!
   

5. You can setup your database with a migration
   

   npx prisma migrate dev --name init
   

   Output:
   

6. Optional: If you want sample data: npm run queries

7. You can now see your database with the npx prisma studio 🚀

Useful links

• Introduction to Prisma Postgres
• Documentation: Prisma Postgres
• Start using Prisma Postgres

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