Table of Contents

• About The Project
• Supported Prisma Versions
• Installation
• Usage
• Additional Options
• Community
• Acknowledgement

About The Project

Automatically generate a JSON file that can be run as a server from your Prisma Schema. Updates every time npx prisma generate runs.

Supported Prisma Versions

Probably no breaking changes for this library, so try newer versions first.

Prisma 4

• 0.2.0 and higher

Prisma 2/3

• 0.1.2 and lower

Installation

Using npm:

 npm install prisma-json-server-generator

Using yarn:

 yarn add prisma-json-server-generator

Usage

1- Star this repo 😉

2- Add the generator to your Prisma schema

generator json_server {
  provider       = "prisma-json-server-generator"
  outputFileName = "db.json"
}

3- Install json-server

npm install -g json-server

4- Run npx prisma generate for the following schema.prisma, or your schema

model User {
  id    Int     @id @default(autoincrement())
  email String  @unique
  name  String?
  posts Post[]
}

model Post {
  id        Int      @id @default(autoincrement())
  createdAt DateTime @default(now())
  updatedAt DateTime @updatedAt
  title     String
  content   String?
  published Boolean  @default(false)
  viewCount Int      @default(0)
  author    User?    @relation(fields: [authorId], references: [id])
  authorId  Int?
}

5- Now you're ready to run your JSON server!

json-server --watch db.json

Additional Options

| Option |  Description | Type |  Default | | ---------------- | --------------------------------------------------- | -------- | ------------- | | output | Output directory for the generated JSON server file | string | ./generated | | outputFileName | JSON output file name | string | db.json |

Use additional options in the schema.prisma

generator json_server {
  provider       = "prisma-json-server-generator"
  output         = "./json-server"
}

Community

Acknowledgement

Source of one of the icons used in making the logo: Json icons created by Smashicons - Flaticon