Prisma CLI & ConfigurationCLI Command Reference

prisma seed

$ prisma seed

Seeds the service with data.

This command expects that the seed property in prisma.yml is specified.

Usage

prisma seed [flags]

Flags

-e, --env-file ENV-FILE    Path to .env file to inject env vars
-r, --reset                Reset the service before seeding

Examples

If you specified the seed property in your prisma.yml, you can run the prisma seed command. For example:

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seed:
  run: node ./data/seed.js
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All sample projects in the prisma-examples repository are based on this seeding mechanism.

Seed service with initial data

prisma seed

Seed service with initial data after deleting all of the service's data first

prisma seed --reset