hey folks, i need some help with the NestJs code f...
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Venu
08/17/2021, 4:53 AMhey folks, i need some help with the NestJs code first approach. I am starting to learn and implement Prisma2. I want to understand how do we generate the prisma schema? I see that schema.gql gets generated automatically. @ryan Could you please help me on this? I
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Mahmoud
08/19/2021, 8:22 AMHey Venu 👋🏻
Do you mind giving more context?
Mahmoud
08/19/2021, 8:22 AMAlso I believe you wanted to mention @Ryan 😄
Mahmoud
08/19/2021, 8:24 AMFor the Prisma schema, which you use to define your database models, you can either write it from scratch or introspect an existing database using
npx prisma db pullv
Venu
08/19/2021, 8:28 AMThanks Mahmoud for the response. Basically am following the code first approach for NestJs GraphQL
Venu
08/19/2021, 8:28 AMI want to integrate prisma2
Venu
08/19/2021, 8:30 AMInorder to use prisma2 in code first approach, do we need to generate schema.prisma or does it auto generated from schema.gql?
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Mahmoud
08/19/2021, 8:33 AMIt’s actually the other way around. You need to define your database models and then you can generate a GraphQL schema if you want
Mahmoud
08/19/2021, 8:34 AMMahmoud
08/19/2021, 8:34 AMThis is an example of generating the GraphQL API from your database schema
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Venu
08/19/2021, 8:48 AMOkie.. that becomes SDL approach..
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Mahmoud
08/19/2021, 8:51 AMNot really, you're defining your schema using TS and then this generates your
schema.graphqlMahmoud
08/19/2021, 8:53 AM1. You define your database models
2. You create your schema using a code first approach and include prisma queries in your resolvers
Now if you want to generate your API from your database schema you can do that using type-graphql or nexus (each one of those libraries have a generator plugin you can use)
Mahmoud
08/19/2021, 8:54 AMDoes that make sense?
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Venu
08/19/2021, 10:41 AMthat makes sense! thanks a lot!
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