Learn about everything that has happened in the Prisma ecosystem and community from April to June 2021.
Overview
- Releases & new features
- Community
- Stickers
- Videos, livestreams & more
- New Prismates
- What's next?
Releases & new features
Our engineers have been hard at work issuing new releases with many improvements and new features every two weeks. Here is an overview of the most exciting features that we have launched in the last three months.
You can stay up-to-date about all upcoming features on our roadmap.
Launched Prisma's online data browser in Early Access
Prisma's online data browser allows you to easily collaborate with your team on your data. You can:
- Import your Prisma projects from GitHub.
- Add other users to it, such as your teammates or your clients.
- Assign users one of four roles: Admin, Developer, Collaborator, Viewer.
- View and edit your data collaboratively online.
Note: The online data browser is released in Early Access. This means it is not production-ready and we are actively seeking feedback that helps us improve it. Please report any UX issues, bugs or other friction points that you encounter.
You can try it today and we would love to know your feedback!
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Referential Actions now enable cascading deletes and updates (Preview)
Since 2.26.0, we introduced a new feature in Preview which allow you to define cascading delete and update behavior in your Prisma schema. Here’s an example:
If you run into any questions or have any feedback, we’re available in this issue.
prisma db push is now generally available 🚀
prisma db push enables you to update the database schema from the Prisma schema file, without generating any migrations.
This is especially useful when prototyping a new feature, iterating on the schema changes before creating migrations or generally if you are at stage of your development process, where you don't need to persist the schema change history via database migrations.
It is now promoted from Preview to General Availability. You can find more info on prisma db push in the official docs.
Human-readable drift diagnostics for prisma migrate dev
Since 2.25.0, Database schema drift occurs when your database schema is out of sync with your migration history, i.e. the database schema has drifted away from the source of truth.
With this release, we improve the way how the drift is printed to the console when detected in the prisma migrate dev command.
While this is thew only command that uses this notation in today's release, we plan to use it in other places where it would be useful for debugging in the future.
New features for the Prisma Client API
We regularly add new features to the Prisma Client API to enable more powerful database queries that were previously only possible via plain SQL and the $queryRaw escape hatch.
Support for .env files in Prisma Client Go
You can now use a .env file with Prisma Client Go. This makes it easier to keep database credentials outside your Prisma schema and potentially work with multiple clients at the same time:
Learn more about using the .env file in our documentation.
MongoDB gets Json and Enum Support
In 2.24.0, we added Json and enum support to the MongoDB provider for Prisma Client. Here's a sample schema with both:
As a reminder, the mongodb provider is still in Early Access. If you'd like to use MongoDB with Prisma, please fill out this 2-minute Typeform and we'll get you an invite to our Getting Started guide and private Slack channel right away!
JSON filtering (preview)
Since 2.23.0, you can now filter rows by data inside a Json type. JSON filtering support is available in PostgreSQL and MySQL.
Assuming we have the following data in a database:
| id | level | message | meta |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | INFO | application listening on port 3000 | {"host": "bob"} |
| 3 | INFO | upgrading account | {"host": "alice", "request_id": 10} |
| 4 | INFO | charging customer | {"host": "alice", "amount": 20, "request_id": 10} |
| 5 | ERROR | credit card expired | {"host": "alice", "amount": 20, "request_id": 10} |
| 6 | INFO | signing up | {"host": "bob", "request_id": 1} |
| 7 | INFO | application listening on port 3000 | {"host": "alice"} |
| 8 | INFO | signed up | {"host": "bob", "email": "james@gmail.com", "request_id": 1} |
We can now filter logs by the data inside the meta field.
Order by an aggregate in groupBy (preview)
Since 2.21.0, you can Order by an aggregate in groupBy. Let's say you want to group your users by the city they live in and then order the results by the cities with the most users.
The query returns the following data:
Community
We wouldn't be where we are today without our amazing community of developers. Our Slack has more than 40k members and is a great place to ask questions, share feedback and initiate discussions all around Prisma.
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Meetups
Prisma Day 2021
Prisma Day has been a huge success and we want to thank everyone who attended and helped making it a great experience! It was a two day event of talks and workshops by members of the Prisma community.
This was our 3rd Prisma day which had 15 amazing talks and an introduction to Prisma workshop offered in 11 different languages.
We've been excited to see fantastic speakers, educators sharing their knowledge and what they're working on. We would also love to thank the amazing workshop hosts for delivering exceptional workshops.
The event covered a broad range of topics:
- Modern Application Development: from type safety and TypeScript, or GraphQL, or JAMStack and the latest Javascript Frameworks, get an overview of the evolving tool landscape that reshapes how applications are architected, built, and deployed.
- Database best practices: a deeper dive into considerations when building stateful applications. Discover the key considerations that give you further control over getting the most out of your data.
- Prisma in Production: discover how users implement Prisma in the their critical applications and what Prisma has in store in the future.
If you missed the event, you can watch all the talks on our YouTube channel.
Tweets for trees
To celebrate Earth Day 🌍, we started the Tweets for trees initiative. This was an initiative where we planted a tree for every tweet about Prisma during the month of April. We planted a total of 269 trees 🌳 for our Prisma forrest.
Stickers
We love seeing laptops that are decorated with Prisma stickers, so we're shipping sticker packs for free to our community members! In this quarter, we've sent out over 300 sticker packs to developers that are excited about Prisma!
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Videos, livestreams & more
What's new in Prisma
Every other Thursday, Nikolas Burk and Ryan Chenkie discuss the latest Prisma release and other news from the Prisma ecosystem and community. If you want to travel back in time and learn about a past release, you can find all the shows from this quarter here:
Videos
How To Choose a Database for your App
A Practical Introduction to Prisma (Workshop | April 2021)
Announcing Early Access for Prisma's Online Data Browser
What is Prisma?
This bring us to a total of 6 livestreams and 5 new videos 🎉. You can check them out on our YouTube channel
Written content
During this quarter, we published several technical articles that you might find useful:
- Set up a free PostgreSQL database on Supabase to use with Prisma
- 5 Tools for Documenting Your Web API
- Application Monitoring Best Practices
- Syncing Development Databases Between Team Members
- Setting up a local MongoDB database
- Connecting to MongoDB databases
- How to manage users and authentication in MongoDB
- How to Spot Bottlenecks in Performance
- Strategies for deploying database migrations
- Troubleshooting Database Outages and Connection Issues
- Setting up a local SQL Server database for Microst SQL Server
- Using the expand and contract pattern for schema changes
We also published multiple success stories of companies adopting Prisma:
- How Poppy Uses Prisma Client to Ship Confidently
- How Grover Moves Faster with Prisma
- How iopool refactored their app in less than 6 months with Prisma
Prisma appearances
This quarter, several Prisma folks have appeared on external channels and livestreams. Here's an overview of all of them:
- Ryan Chenkie @ Digital Ocean livestream with Chris Sev
- Mahmoud Abdelwahab @ Orbit's Communitree with Rosie Sherry
- Mahmoud Abdelwahab @ James Q Quick's livestream
- Nikolas Burk @ the Learn with Jason livestream
New Prismates
Here are the awesome new Prismates who joined Prisma this quarter:
I'm a dark hole when it comes to good food. Friends know that delicious food may just disappear 🍰 🌀
❓ Why are you joining Prisma?Prisma is awesome, disruptive, and a game-changer. It has been setting the bar very high around DX, which has led an awesome, and ever growing community — I find this super exciting. Prisma is also a great playground for us TypeScript developers. It's full of opportunities and challenges, but also a unique place where I can express some of my deep TypeScript knowledge. So here we are, let's type!
I once travelled across Canada by train, and can’t wait to do it again.
❓ Why are you joining Prisma?I joined Prisma because I believe in open source software. I also think type safe languages are the future. Especially Rust, which is a joy to work with. With that in mind, applying what I’ve learned over the years to a product like Prisma feels impactful, and a way to give back to the community.
I've tried to read War and Peace three times and could never make it beyond half the book🙈
❓ Why are you joining Prisma?It's a really interesting product with a lot of potential. It's exciting to work with so many talented and nice people.
I once did the voice of a sexy, talking painting.
❓ Why are you joining Prisma?Prisma has an amazing people culture, and I really wanted to not just be part of it but strengthen it even further in order to empower a culture of growth, diversity, and excellent engineering practices. It's exciting to be able to have so much influence on how we take a great team and product even further
Also, we are hiring for various roles! If you're interested in joining us and becoming a Prismate, check out our jobs page.
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What's next?
The best places to stay up-to-date about what we are currently working on are GitHub issues and our public roadmap. (Mongo DB support coming soon 👀)
You can also engage in conversations in our Slack channel, start a discussion on GitHub or join one of the many Prisma meetups around the world.
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