has renamed the channel from "accouncements" to "announcements"

<!here> please join #general for general chat 🙂 As commonly requested by members of the community, I established this channel to keep announcements all in one place.

set the channel topic: Announcements and Party Parrots

We just released Prisma

1.6.1

, which fixes issues with subscriptions and introduces deployment warnings/errors to safeguard your project from unintentional destructive changes. Read the full release notes here: https://github.com/graphcool/prisma/releases/tag/1.6.1

Hey <!channel>, we're super excited about the Prisma 1.7 release today 🦜 Here are the biggest changes: - A simpler

prisma.yml

structure - introduction of post deployment hooks for easier schema and code generation workflows - Terminology: Prisma cluster becomes Prisma server - Changed

prisma init

flow with explicit

docker-compose.yml

access - Deprecation of

prisma local

and

prisma cluster

commands - Kicking off alpha support for the Postgres Connector - Simpler Prisma server authentication You can read the full release notes (https://github.com/graphcool/prisma/releases/tag/1.7.0), and there's also an upgrade guide (https://www.prisma.io/docs/1.7/reference/upgrade-guides/upgrading-prisma/upgrade-to-1.7-iquaecuj6b). Let us know if you have any questions, I'm looking forward to your feedback 🙌

Hey <!channel>, we’ve just released Prisma 1.8 which includes stable support for Postgres databases and improved performance besides other smaller improvements and bug fixes! 🐘 prisma I’m especially excited about the experimental support for existing Postgres databases which has been a super highly requested feature! ✨ You can read the full announcement here: https://blog.graph.cool/prisma-now-supports-postgres-aad74ba479cb There’s also an upgrade guide available in the docs: http://bit.ly/prisma-1-8 We can’t wait to hear your thoughts on this – happy to answer any questions! 🦜

Hey <!channel>, we’ve just published version 2.0 of the

graphql-binding

package with lots of exciting changes and new features 🚀 - More flexible and powerful API (e.g. passing

context

, applying schema transforms or modifying the

info

object) - It’s now super easy to create your own GraphQL bindings - Powerful tooling for automatic code generation - Seamless integration with

graphql-config

Check out the blog post that discusses all that in more detail: https://blog.graph.cool/graphql-binding-2-0-improved-api-schema-transforms-automatic-codegen-5934cd039db1 Also note that we’ve used glitch.com for the first time in this blog post - this means you can play around with the code in your own Node Sandbox right in the article 😮

Hey <!everyone>! 👋 Today is a very special day for us as we’ve announced our $4.5M seed round and have officially rebranded into Prisma – including our new shiny website ✨ https://www.prisma.io/blog/prisma-raises-4-5m-to-build-the-graphql-data-layer-for-all-databases-663484df0f60/ Of everything we’ve accomplished over the last 2.5 years, what we’re most grateful for is having such an incredible community! A big thank you to each and every one of you! 🤗 We couldn’t be more excited about the future of Prisma! Thank you! prisma dark

Hey <!here>, we have an ambitious vision - building the best GraphQL API for every kind of database. To reach that goal, we established a new release process focused on early and impactful community feedback, and and stable production releases 🚀 You can find everything you need to know about the new release process here: https://www.prisma.io/blog/improving-prismas-release-process-yaey8deiwaex/ 💪 Finally, I'd like to give a huge shoutout to our community, who has done a superb job of providing feedback so far 🙌 I hope this new process makes that even easier for you in the future! 💚 You can join #beta to get early access to features and bug fixes and test Prisma before the next stable release.

Hey <!channel>! It’s awesome to see so many of you today at the GraphQL Europe conference in Berlin! graphql europe We have a very special treat for you today, as we’re releasing a new GraphQL plugin for VS Code including the following features: ✅ Intelligent autocompletion ✅ Jump-to-definition from anywhere ✅ Schema-based query validation Here’s the announcement blog post: https://www.prisma.io/blog/vscode-thieghu7shoo/ We hope you like it! 🙌 P.S. A special thanks to our awesome community member @divyendu who’s been working on this for the last few weeks! 💪

Hey <!channel>! We’re super excited (I swear, we really are!) to announce the Heroku integration for Prisma Cloud today heroku + prisma dark = ❤️ The integration allows you to deploy a Prisma server (including a database) to your own Heroku account with a few clicks. It even works with Heroku’s free plan 🤩 Check out the announcement blog post for more information: https://www.prisma.io/blog/heroku-integration-homihof6eifi/

We also would very much appreciate your support on Twitter 😍 https://twitter.com/prisma/status/1012351162513874944

Hey everyone <!here>! We’re open-sourcing the

graphql-middleware

library today, making it easier for you to keep your resolvers clean and simple! 🚀 With GraphQL Middleware, you can pull out your business logic into dedicated middleware functions which are wrapping your resolvers. Read more in the announcement blog post: https://www.prisma.io/blog/graphql-middleware-zie3iphithxy/ Special thanks to our community member @matic who played a major role in building the library and already built several other libraries on top of it! 🙏 Make sure to leave him some stars on GitHub! 🌟 - https://github.com/maticzav/graphql-shield - https://github.com/maticzav/graphql-middleware-sentry - https://github.com/homeroom-live/graphql-middleware-apollo-upload-server

Hey everyone <!here> 👋 Our engineering team has focussed heavily on improving the performance of Prisma over the last couple of weeks. Last week’s 1.14 release was the result of that and came with many improvements for scalability and speed 🚀 We’re very excited about this release as we’ve managed to increase the throughput of Prisma by up to 400%! You can read all details about the improvements in the latest release here: https://www.prisma.io/blog/performance-release-aeduv0rei0ji/ We have further used this intense period of focussing on improving performance to make sure the constant evaluation and optimization of performance becomes deeply engrained into our engineering process. Therefore, we have built a benchmarking suite that is ran after every code change to ensure we’re not accidentally introducing performance penalties (similar to how we’re running unit tests to ensure the stability of Prisma) ⏱️ You can read more about this on our engineering blog: https://www.prisma.io/blog/performance-engineering-aeduv0rei0jk/

Hi <!everyone>! 👋 We’ve been working on some really exciting improvements in order to make Prisma easier to use from within your code. Today we’re launching the beta of Prisma client which you can think of as the next evolution of Prisma bindings. 🔥 With today’s release of Prisma 1.16 and Prisma client you’ll get the following new features: ✅ Support for JS, TS, Flow and Go (!) ✅ Type-safe database access ✅ Fluent relations API (using chained promises) ✅ Generate Prisma client using

prisma generate

(no longer depending on

graphql-cli

) ✅ Use Prisma for any use case: GraphQL servers, REST APIs and other applications Prisma client will be in beta for the next few weeks and we’d love to get as much feedback from you as possible. Please check it out and give it a try! 🙌 https://www.prisma.io/blog/prisma-client-beta-ahph4o1umail/

I thought to do it gradually

Hey <!everyone>! We’ve kept it under our wraps, but we’re so excited to share the news!! GraphQL Europe is coming back next year as GraphQL Conf! 🚀 At our past GraphQL Europe conferences, we had so many participants and speakers from all around the world, we wanted to rename the conference to reflect that it is truly an event for the global GraphQL community. Here’s the scoop! 🌟 When: June 20th and 21st, 2019 🌟 Where: Berlin, Germany 🌟 Confirmed Speakers: Lee Byron, Dan Schafer, Mirela Iclodean If you’d be interested in speaking, we’ve opened the Call for Papers, and for those who want to attend, early bird conference tickets are now live! You can find all of the event details on the site: https://www.graphqlconf.org/ Hope to see you there 🎉 https://twitter.com/thegraphqlconf/status/1053294603057721345

Hey <!everyone>! 🙌 We have just officially announced

graphqlgen

on our blog: https://www.prisma.io/blog/graphqlgen-fj3s0ssc1jsx/ 🚀 The

graphqlgen

CLI helps you build fully-typed GraphQL servers. It generates the boilerplate that's required to make your resolvers type-safe and keeps your type definitions in sync with the GraphQL schema. The easiest way to get started is by using the npm-initializer:

npm init graphqlgen ./my-app

⚡ If you're as excited about this as we are, please help us spread the word on Twitter: https://twitter.com/prisma/status/1057313242232602624 🔈 Special shoutout to @Ben Awad who created a video walkthrough explaining the tool: 🙏

Hey <!everyone>! 😄 Today's 1.22-release is very special, we're excited to finally introduce the MongoDB connector for Prisma 🍃 MongoDB is the first database connector that benefits from the new datamodel format (Datamodel v2) that we're currently working on 💡 The easiest way to get started with the MongoDB connector is by using the

prisma init

command and the interactive CLI wizard that helps you set up a new MongoDB instance with Prisma. You can also connect Prisma to your existing MongoDB instance and derive the Prisma datamodel from the already stored data using introspection (this is available in beta today, so please use the

@beta

tag when you're installing Prisma and want to introspect your existing MongoDB). We have updated our docs, feel free to take a look around and learn how to use the MongoDB connector in your apps: https://www.prisma.io/docs/releases-and-maintenance/features-in-preview/mongodb-b6o5/ 📚 As usual, we're thankful for your support and RTs on Twitter: https://twitter.com/prisma/status/1070001407468687360 🙏

Hey everyone <!here>! 🙌 We've had a minor incident with our main GitHub repository yesterday. While there's no damage on the code, we've unfortunately lost all watchers of the repo. If you've previously watched the repository, you can now watch it again: https://github.com/prisma/prisma 👀

Hi everyone! 👋 Prisma is nominated for the Golden Kitty Awards on Product Hunt 🙀 🏆 The awards are judged by vote ✅ and every vote makes huge difference, we’re currently at 49 votes (with the highest in our category being 214)! Please help us out with your vote, we appreciate your help! 🙏 https://www.producthunt.com/golden-kitty-awards-2018#dev-tool

Hey GraphQL fans 👋 graphql We've just published an in-depth article about the ideas of schema-first (or how we rather like to call it SDL-first) and code-first GraphQL server development. 👉 You can find it here: https://www.prisma.io/blog/the-problems-of-schema-first-graphql-development-x1mn4cb0tyl3/ We're always trying to improve the developer experience for building GraphQL servers, much of our open-source efforts are dedicated to the GraphQL ecosystem. With this article, we summarize the learnings we've gathered over 2 years of being an active contributor to the GraphQL tooling space and share our opinions on how GraphQL server should be built.

Note that this is part 1 or a 3-part series, so stay tuned for the upcoming articles 👀

As always, we very much appreciate your support on Twitter. Please help us sparking a discussion in the GraphQL community with a RT 🙏 https://twitter.com/prisma/status/1090978090908557312

Hey again everyone 👋 graphql Here comes the follow up to last week's article. This time it's a guest post by @tgriesser who introduces the GraphQL Nexus library. 🚀 👉 Find it here: https://www.prisma.io/blog/introducing-graphql-nexus-code-first-graphql-server-development-ll6s1yy5cxl5/ GraphQL Nexus implements a code-first approach for GraphQL server development by providing a programmatic API for constructing a GraphQL schema. Everything is based on the familiar primitives from

graphql-js

, so it's fully compatible with the current GraphQL ecosystem (e.g.

apollo-server

,

graphql-middleware

, ...). We would love to hear what you think! https://twitter.com/prisma/status/1093567305408229378

Hey everyone <!here> graphql🚀 We just published the third and last part of your article series on code-first GraphQL server development. This final article is about the new

nexus-prisma

plugin that was built by our open-source engineer @weakky 💪 👉 https://www.prisma.io/blog/using-graphql-nexus-with-a-database-pmyl3660ncst/ If you've followed the path of Prisma over the past year, you've seen a lot of movement in our ecosystem – especially with regards to GraphQL server development. We see the

nexus-prisma

plugin as a huge step forward and a large improvement for the developer experience when building GraphQL servers. The

nexus-prisma

plugin provides CRUD building blocks based on the Prisma datamodel. When implementing your GraphQL server, you build upon these building blocks and expose/customize them to your own API needs. Here are some of its core features: - CRUD operations for your Prisma models in GraphQL (easier than

forwardTo

) - Customize your Prisma models, e.g. hide certain fields or add computed fields - Full type-safety: Coherent set of types for GraphQL schema and database - Compatible with the GraphQL ecosystem (e.g. apollo-server, graphql-yoga, ...) - Incrementally adoptable - Compatible both with TypeScript and JavaScript Please help us spread the word about the

nexus-prisma

plugin with a RT on Twitter: https://twitter.com/prisma/status/1096104638569431041

Hey Everyone <!here>! 👋 Happy International Women’s Day! 💜✨🙌 To celebrate the day, we wanted to recognize some of the amazing groups supporting women in tech! We’ve created an open source map that highlights some of these incredible organizations around the world, and would love your support getting the word out! 🗺️ 👩🏾‍💻👩🏿‍💻👩🏻‍💻 Additionally, if you have groups you’d like to add or suggestions for the site, feel free to check out the repo and submit a PR! We’re so excited about this and are delighted to share it with you today! 🚀 Site: https://womenworldwide.dev/ 📣 Tweet: https://twitter.com/prisma/status/1103978013635608577 We’ve also been featured on product hunt! 🐱 Product Hunt: https://www.producthunt.com/

Hey everyone 👋 we're very excited to launch Prisma Admin in Beta today 🎉 👉 Check out the blog post: https://prisma.io/blog/prisma-admin-beta-pai5lah43soe/ ▶️ Prisma Admin is modern database UI that lets you view and edit your data with ease. You can use it by appending

/_admin

to the endpoint of your Prisma service in the latest Prisma `v1.29-beta or try out a live demo here: https://www.prisma.io/generate-demo-project. 🙏 We're already working on the next big features for Prisma Admin, and we'd like your help! Please share your feedback and ideas with us so we can further improve Prisma Admin! Feedback: https://github.com/prisma/prisma-admin-feedback/ Spectrum: https://spectrum.chat/prisma/general/prisma-admin-beta-a-modern-ui-to-manage-your-data~7ecf9013-bb40-4013-8ba4-91c8c1594880

Hey everyone 👋graphql Since we released the Prisma client last year, we have seen many confusions about how Prisma and GraphQL fit together. In today's article, we want to clarify some of the misconceptions we've seen and explain how we're thinking about GraphQL. 👉 You can read it here: https://www.prisma.io/blog/prisma-and-graphql-mfl5y2r7t49c/ The bottom-line is: We ❤️ GraphQL and it is a very important use case for us, that's why we're investing a lot into the GraphQL ecosystem and community! However, Prisma's use cases go beyond GraphQL: You can also use it to build other applications that are accessing a database, such as REST or gRPC APIs. Prisma's ultimate goal is to simplify database workflows, such as databases access, migrations and data management. We'd love to hear what you think of this article and if you have any further questions. Please join the discussion on Spectrum: https://spectrum.chat/prisma/general/how-prisma-and-graphql-fit-together~8c05c8f2-84c7-4ced-8f16-74d9798c71fa

Hey <!everyone>! 👋 We are really excited to announce Prisma Day, a one-day Prisma event, coming this June! 🎉 🗓️ Date: June 19th (the day before GraphQL Conf: https://www.graphqlconf.org/) 📍 Location: Berlin This is our first Prisma focused community conference and a day that we’re dedicating to talks on modern app development, databases, and of course all of the ways developers and teams use Prisma (especially in production). We are especially excited to have an opportunity to connect with so many people in person and hear more about your Prisma experiences and ideas! 🤩 All the links: - Prisma Day Blog Post: https://www.prisma.io/blog/announcing-prisma-day-50cg22nn40qk - Prisma Day Site: prisma.io/day/ - Buy Tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/prisma-day-tickets-59157422443 We can’t wait to see you there!

Hey everyone, we've just released Prisma v1.31 🚀 This release features an improved datamodel syntax (breaking change) that gives developers more control over the database layout created by Prisma. Here are a few things that are now possible with the new datamodel: ✅ Specify whether a relation should use a relation table or foreign keys ✅ Model and field names can differ from the names of the underlying tables and columns ✅ Use any field as

id

field and "bring your own ID" ✅ Use any field as

createdAt

or

updatedAt

fields 👉 You can read everything about the new features in the announcement blog post: https://www.prisma.io/blog/datamodel-v11-lrzqy1f56c90. By the way, we have also improved our introspection worfklows a lot! This makes it even easier for developers to get started with Prisma using a legacy database. Oh, and we've finally enabled introspection for MySQL databases as well 😼 🙌 Share your feedback and comments on Spectrum: https://spectrum.chat/prisma/general/releasing-prisma-v1-31~0d4dcb59-a58f-4ecf-84e6-b8509bad4abf

Hey <!here>! The schedule for Prisma Day is live and ready! 👀 https://www.prisma.io/day/#speakers 🌟 Date: June 19th 🌟 Location Berlin There’s an incredible line up of speakers, including the CEOs from ZEIT, Code-Sandbox, FaunaDB, and CockroachDB and experts from across the DB and app development space. 🎙️ We’re also really excited to have Peter van Hardenberg MCing the event! He led the team that delivered the Heroku’s Postgres product and served on Heroku’s exec team, and currently is an Auth0 boardmember. 🔥🌭🥤After all the talks, Prisma Day will close out with a fun barbecue (veggies welcome)! If you don’t have your tickets: 👉 Prisma + GraphQL Conf tickets: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/graphql-conf-2019-tickets-47172725893?aff=ehomecard#tickets, 👉 Just Prisma Day ticket: https://www.prisma.io/day/ 👉 Prisma Day opportunity tickets: https://diversitytickets.org/en/events/430 We’ve created #prisma-day for the event! Looking forward to seeing everyone in Berlin. 🦜