Get Started

Set up Prisma

Goals

On this page, you will learn how to:

  • Install the Prisma CLI
  • Set up a Prisma Demo server with a sandboxed database
  • Read and write data using the Prisma Go client

Install the Prisma CLI

The Prisma CLI is used for various Prisma workflows. You can install it using Homebrew or NPM:

Homebrew
NPM
brew tap prisma/prisma
brew install prisma
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Set up Prisma

To bootstrap the configuration files for your Prisma setup, run the prisma init command in your GOPATH:

mkdir hello-world
cd hello-world
prisma init
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After running prisma init, the Prisma CLI prompts you to select how you want to deploy Prisma:

  1. Select Demo server from the list.
  2. When your browser opens, register with Prisma Cloud. This is needed because that's where the Demo server is hosted.
  3. Go back to your terminal.
  4. Confirm the suggested values for the following questions with Return:

    1. The region where Prisma service should be hosted
    2. The name for Prisma service
    3. The stage for Prisma service
  5. Select Prisma Go Client to generate Prisma client for Golang.
  • prisma.yml: The root configuration file for your Prisma setup.
  • datamodel.prisma: Specifies the datamodel for your application that will be mapped to the database (it basically defines your database schema).
  • generated/: Contains the generated source files for the Prisma Go client.

Deploy Prisma

The interactive wizard created the minimal Prisma configuration based on a hosted demo database: prisma.yml and datamodel.prisma. Prisma now needs to be deployed so you can use the Prisma API:

prisma deploy
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Congratulations, you have successfully deployed Prisma. You can now start using the Prisma client to talk to your database from code.

Prepare Go application

touch index.go
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You'll be using dep for dependency management in this tutorial. Run the following command to create the required setup:

dep init
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Great, you're now ready to write some code and talk to your database programmatically!

Read and write data using the Prisma client

Add the following code in index.go:

package main

import (
    "context"
    "fmt"
    prisma "hello-prisma/generated/prisma-client"
)

func main() {
    client := prisma.New(nil)
    ctx := context.TODO()

    // Create a new user
    name := "Alice"
    newUser, err := client.CreateUser(prisma.UserCreateInput{
        Name: name,
    }).Exec(ctx)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    fmt.Printf("Created new user: %+v\n", newUser)

    users, err := client.Users(nil).Exec(ctx)
    if err != nil {
        panic(err)
    }
    fmt.Printf("%+v\n", users)
}
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Before executing the script, you need to ensure all dependencies are available. Run the following command:

dep ensure
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Now execute the script with the following command:

go run index.go
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Whenever you run the script with that command, a new user record is created in the demo database (because of the call to createUser).

Feel free to play around with the Prisma client API and try out some of the following operations by adding the following code snippets to the file (at the end of the main function) and re-executing the script:

Fetch single user
Filter user list
Update a user's name
Delete user
id := "__USER_ID__"
userById, err := client.User(prisma.UserWhereUniqueInput{
  ID: &id,
}).Exec(ctx)
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In some snippets, you need to replace the __USER__ID__ placeholder with the ID of an actual user.

Great work! 👏 Move on to learn how you can change your datamodel and regenerate your Prisma client.
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