Install and Configure Prisma

Now give the application a typed data-access layer for PostgreSQL.

Task

Install Prisma and configure the project to generate the standard Prisma client.

Install

Run:

npm install @prisma/client
npm install -D prisma

Initialize Prisma:

npx prisma init

This creates the Prisma schema and connects Prisma configuration to DATABASE_URL.

Configure the Generator

Open prisma/schema.prisma and use the Prisma Client generator:

generator client {
  provider = "prisma-client-js"
}

datasource db {
  provider = "postgresql"
  url      = env("DATABASE_URL")
}

Do not create application models yet. The next lessons will build the schema incrementally.

Generate the Client

Run:

npx prisma generate

Test

Confirm that Prisma generates successfully without a schema validation error.

Checkpoint

The project now has Prisma configured for PostgreSQL, but no Readly models yet.