Prisma CLI

Prisma CLI with Go

The go client works slightly different from the normal Prisma tooling. When you’re using the go client, whenever you see Prisma CLI commands such as prisma ..., you should always write go run github.com/steebchen/prisma-client-go ... instead.

For example:

# just re-generate the Go client
go run github.com/steebchen/prisma-client-go generate
 
# sync the database with your schema for development
go run github.com/steebchen/prisma-client-go db push
 
# create a prisma schema from your existing database
go run github.com/steebchen/prisma-client-go db pull
 
# for production use, create a migration locally
go run github.com/steebchen/prisma-client-go migrate dev
 
# sync your production database with your migrations
go run github.com/steebchen/prisma-client-go migrate deploy

Shortcut

If you just work with the Go client and don’t have (or want) the NodeJS Prisma CLI installed, you can set up an alias so that you can write prisma commands as usual, but it’ll invoke the real locally bundled Prisma CLI. To do that, edit your ~/.bashrc or ~/.zshrc and add:

alias prisma="go run github.com/steebchen/prisma-client-go"

Now prisma generate and any other command will work, and it’ll just run go run github.com/steebchen/prisma-client-go generate under the hood.