In this supper club episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk with Nikolas Burk from Prisma about the role an ORM plays in a tech stack, how Prisma has changed over the years, ways to query data in Prisma, and how migrations work with Prisma.

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Show Notes

00:35 Welcome
01:30 Guest intro
@NikolasBurk on Twitter
04:56 How has Prisma evolved?
Prisma
Keystone
GraphQL
10:44 What was Prisma V1?
17:04 Is there any GraphQL specific functions in Prismic?
21:26 Sponsor: Hasura
22:26 What role does an ORM play in a tech stack?
29:54 What is Planetscale?
Planetscale
The T3 Stack
32:22 Where does TRPC fit?
tRPC
33:46 Sponsor: Storyblok
35:28 What is an ORM?
Prisma VS Code plugin
42:00 How do migrations work with Prisma?
45:58 Query your data with Prisma client
49:43 Have you looked into alternative JavaScript environments?
55:16 Sponsor: FireHydrant
57:05 Supper Club questions
58:50 SIIIIICK ××× PIIIICKS ×××

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