README.md

Prisma-Client-Rust, Actix-Web, Async-Graphql

Example Actix Web server with Prisma (ORM) and GraphQL

The code is organized around a feature folder architecture, with GraphQL operations such as queries, mutations, and subscriptions, inside of each folder. Put whatever other logic is needed inside as well.

Quickstart

• Create a database. We will use Postgres as an example, with a username and password of postgres and a database name of prisma_rust_client_example.

sudo -u postgres psql -c 'create database prisma_rust_client_example;'

• Add the database URL to prisma/schema.prisma (referenced as simply schema.prisma hereafter).

...
datasource database {
  provider = "postgresql" // If you decide to use a different database, change the `provider` here
  url      = "postgresql://postgres:postgres@localhost:5432/prisma_rust_client_example"
}
...

• Run the following commands to initialize Prisma and set up the database:

  • cargo prisma generate: This will create the src/prisma.rs file which is code generated from reading the schema.prisma file
  • cargo prisma migrate reset: This will seed the database and create the necessary tables
  • (Optional) npx prisma studio: This brings up Prisma Studio, a GUI where you can add and remove rows in the database without needing to do it in the code itself. This requires having NodeJS installed on your machine, otherwise npx will fail.

• Run cargo run to start the server.

• Navigate to http://localhost:8000 to see GraphiQL where you can test out GraphQL operations.