Practical GraphQL: Learning Full-Stack GraphQL Development with Projects

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N. BiswasPractical GraphQLhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9621-9_5

5. Creating an App with Prisma

Nabendu Biswas¹  

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Bhopal, India

 

In this chapter, we will use Prisma to build the back end of a blog app. This is an ORM tool that autogenerates a schema and other things for GraphQL.

The Setup

We will create a new directory called blog-app-prisma. Inside it, we will create another folder named server. In the server folder, we will initialize an empty called package.json by giving the command npm. See Listing 5-1.

mkdir blog-app-prisma

cd blog-app-prisma/

mkdir server

cd server/

npm init –y

Listing 5-1

Terminal

Next, we will install apollo-server and ...