Associations and Relationships
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Module Overview
What You’ll Learn
- Model one-to-many relationships in a Prisma schema
- Model many-to-many relationships in a Prisma schema
- Load related data efficiently with
includeandselect
💡 Why this module matters: Real data is rarely one flat table, users have posts, posts have tags. This module covers modeling those relationships correctly in Prisma, and loading related data without the extra-query problem that catches most beginners.
What’s Covered
- One-to-many relationships, foreign keys and relation fields in
schema.prisma. - Many-to-many relationships, implicit and explicit join models.
- Eager loading, using
includeandselectto fetch related data in one query. - Foreign key constraints, what the database enforces once relationships are defined.
Hands-On
By the end of this module, you’ll have modeled both one-to-many and many-to-many relationships in Prisma, migrated them into a real database, and queried related data efficiently.
Next module: the full CRUD query API Prisma Client provides.