prisma-examples VS MikroORM

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Prisma

We'll use a simple blogging app as an example through out this article. Our work will be based on the NestJS + Prisma starter project here. You can also create a new project from it with a one liner:

Prisma's docs[0] are one of the best I've read

[0] https://www.prisma.io/docs

Quiero algo de este estilo: https://github.com/prisma/prisma-examples/tree/latest/typescript/graphql-nexus

Prisma is a package that invites new users. It is well-documented and well-suited for your first or 50th Node project. Their documentation contains comprehensive information on the features available. You can also access several guides, including introductory "how-tos," steps for deploying applications that use Prisma, and instructions on migrating from another ORM. The guides are thorough, up-to-date, and easy to follow. In addition, Prisma's team has made sure your experience using their ORM is as painless as possible.

And that's how we can use a Node.js library like Prisma to work with NoSQL and SQL databases. Prisma's documentation page gives further details about this process.

We will follow the documentation to get started with Prisma. You can read and also take a reference to the documentation.

In my usual NodeJS tech stack, which includes GraphQL, NestJS, SQL (predominantly PostgreSQL with MikroORM), I encountered these limitations. To overcome them, I've developed a new stack utilizing Rust, which still offers some ease of development:

https://www.npmjs.com/package/mikro-orm - 44 issues

Mikro-ORM is a TypeScript ORM that focuses on simplicity and efficiency. It supports various SQL databases and MongoDB. Mikro-ORM is known for its simplicity and developer-friendly APIs. It provides a concise syntax for defining data models and relationships, making it easy to use.

I found MikroORM [0] to be quite reasonable if you're in the TS ecosystem already. It was also easy to do custom, raw queries, and really just felt like it wasn't in the way.

[0] https://mikro-orm.io/

It also does code generation into its own module, so good luck with hoisting in a monorepo where you want multiple independent prisma schemas. MikroORM[1] is a much better alternative to Prisma in my opinion but any ORM carries some form of baggage.

[1] https://mikro-orm.io/

More about v6 development can be found here.

I recommend looking at https://mikro-orm.io/