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Here's the Github repository if you'd like to review the code.
We're going to be using TypeScript in this tutorial.
Run this command to open up Prisma Studio, a simple way to explore and manipulate the data in the database:
This tutorial won't get in to much detail on how to use Prisma - we'll stick to a simple example that you can expand on - their docs are very good.
If you're comfortable configuring your database server locally (e.g. you might use the Postgres app instead of Docker), you can skip this section.