Creating a Node.js GraphQL server using Prisma 2

Prisma is an open-source database toolkit that replaces traditional ORMs. It makes database access easy with an auto-generated query builder for TypeScript and Node. js. Using only an intuitive API and plain old JavaScript objects, it enables a developer to only worry about the data and not the native database queries to get data.

The databases currently supported by Prisma are PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite. In this article, we will be building a basic polling GraphQL server. Some understanding of Prisma will make it easier to go along with this article. If you are not familiar with Prisma, Akshay Kadam wrote a great article that should help you get started. When we are done with the server, you should be able to create a user and the user can create a poll that other users can vote on.

As mentioned earlier basic knowledge of Prisma and Node.js will be necessary to follow along. Ensure that you have Node and Yarn, or npm installed on your machine.

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