NodeJs: Highlight error in Prisma ORM's get started guide's client generator code

[RaihanSharif]

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If you use the JavaScript/PostgreSQL option in the get started guide on the prisma ORM website, the guide overlooks a small detail in the prisma.schema file, which causes an error.

generator client {
  provider = "prisma-client"
  output   = "../generated/prisma"
}

Should be:

generator client {
  provider = "prisma-client-js"
  output   = "../generated/prisma"
}

We should put one of those little info sections in there to highlight this.

See below link for the issue on the Prisma repo:
prisma/docs#7315

Path

Node / JS

Lesson Url

https://www.theodinproject.com/lessons/nodejs-prisma-orm

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The issue on the Prisma repo is only 3 weeks old and still open. So maybe they'll fix it soon?

[ZackHoang]

I'll take this on!

[mao-sz]

Is this the one and only change to the tutorial that learners would need to address? i.e. they can follow the tutorial 100% fine as long as they only change this bit when relevant?

[RaihanSharif]

@mao-sz Yes, though you'd have to run migrate or generate command again, but it worked fine for me. I was able to work with the db.

Though I think @goran1010's post below would be better since prisma v7 now requires other changes.

prisma/docs#7294 (comment)

[mao-sz]

Thanks. I'll wait to see what Prisma maints say. Best case scenario, the JS guide is returned. If not, we need to confirm the full scope of what's different between the existing TS guide and following it successfully with JS only.

Prisma v7 is a separate issue as there are usually breaking changes in major releases that require quite a bit more adjustments on every side.

[RaihanSharif]

Also, it might be easier to just declare the generator provider explicitly in the init command like in Goran's example:

npx prisma init --datasource-provider postgresql --generator-provider prisma-client-js