prisma
Prisma is an open-source database toolkit. It includes a JavaScript/TypeScript ORM for Node.js, migrations and a modern GUI to view and edit the data in your database. You can use Prisma in new projects or add it to an existing one.
Type-safe database access with an auto-generated client.
When to choose it: New TypeScript projects that want the best DX: a schema file, generated types, and a polished migration workflow.
- + Fully generated types
- + Great migrations & studio
- + Excellent docs
- - Extra schema file + generate step
- - Less raw-SQL flexibility
- Latest version
- 7.8.0
- Monthly downloads
- 50,109,989
- GitHub stars
- 46,043
- Minified + gzip
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- Dependencies
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- License
- Apache-2.0
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