Overview (/docs/guides)

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Practical, step-by-step guides for building with Prisma ORM, each one run end to end before it ships.

Location: Overview

Practical, step-by-step guides for building with Prisma ORM. Every command in a published guide was run end to end against a live database before it landed here. The Prisma ORM 7 guides remain available for Prisma ORM 7 projects.

Use the version dropdown in the sidebar to switch between these guides and the Prisma ORM 7 guides.

Each framework guide scaffolds a working app with create-prisma, initializes the database, and ends with your data rendering:

• Next.js

• Astro

• Nuxt

• SvelteKit

• TanStack Start

• NestJS

• Hono

• Elysia

• Bun

• Deno

• Docker

• Cloudflare Workers

• Turborepo

• pnpm workspaces

• Bun workspaces

• Multiple databases

• Expand-and-contract migrations

• Schema changes as a team

• From Drizzle

• From Sequelize or TypeORM

• From Mongoose

• GitHub Actions

• AI SDK

• Prisma ORM 7 to 8 on PostgreSQL

• Prisma ORM 7 to 8 on MongoDB

The authentication guides and the remaining integration and Prisma Postgres guides in the sidebar are written for Prisma ORM 7 and carry a note at the top saying so. Some wait on third-party adapters that still require Prisma Client; the rest land here as they are ported. Cloudflare D1 and the Accelerate integrations live under the Prisma ORM 7 guides only.

• Start with the quickstart if you don't have a Prisma ORM project yet.
• Learn the fundamentals: reading, writing, relations, transactions, and advanced queries.
• Read the Prisma ORM overview for the concepts behind contracts, typed queries, and migrations.

• Choose a Prisma ORM setup path: Choose the fastest path to try Prisma ORM in a new or existing project.
• Console: Learn how to use the Console to manage and integrate Prisma products into your application.
• Deploy the full Prisma stack: A single tutorial from empty directory to live URL, with Prisma Composer, Prisma ORM, and Prisma Postgres.
• Introduction to Prisma ORM: Prisma ORM 8 is the current release.
• Local development: Run the whole Prisma stack on your machine, with your app on Bun, a local Prisma Postgres database, and local object storage.