How come that in the github repository of Prisma most of the language used is Scala, but when I install Prisma, it's just Javascript/Typescript and no Scala?

The Prisma solution is actually written in Scala. The tools for developers for public use is written in JS/TS due to it’s dominance amongst developers (especially those using GraphQL predominantly)

Alright, so do the JS/TS files depend on the Scala files? Because when I modify the Scala files and run Prisma afterwards, I do not see any changes.

I believe they don’t. What specifically are you modifying?

Nothing specifically, I would like to study the code in order to understand the system better and I since some methods are not quite understandable for me, I though I could modify them a bit to see their effect, but modification of Scala files never changed anything, so I thought I could ask here if the Scala files are actually used.

They are used, but you might need to put the files through some build process in order to use the final output

Well, I build prisma with

yarn

and

yarn build

in the

prisma/cli

directory and install it with

npm install packages/prisma-cli

Is there something wrong with this build process?

hrm, should you be installing it via npm? or should you be using

npm link

?

I tried it, does not make a difference. I modified the Scala files in the

prisma/server/...

directories and nothing changed.

hrm. Maybe @nilan can help us.

The repository is a mono repo, so it contains files for the CLI, the server code, documentations and examples. Running the CLI will not directly interfere with the Scala code, for example 🙂

So the Scala code is not needed for running Prisma?

The Scala code is Prisma 😄

Maybe I'm a little confused right now, but if I change/delete the Scala code and execute Prisma using the CLI, why does everything still work normally? Even if the code for Prisma (= Scala code) was deleted before building?