prisma-factory

Generate factory functions for your Prisma models.

Installation and Setup

This package can be installed in any project using Prisma. To get started, install by running the following from the command line:

# Using yarn
yarn add prisma-factory --dev

# Using npm
npm install prisma-factory --save-dev

# Using pnpm
pnpm add prisma-factory --dev

Once installed, open your Prisma schema file to add the generator block for prisma-factory:

datasource db {
  provider = "postgresql"
  url      = env("DATABASE_URL")
}

generator client {
  provider = "prisma-client-js"
}

// Add this block to your schema
generator factories {
  provider = "prisma-factory"
}

Run the prisma generate command to generate the factory files. You can import the generated files into your project from prisma-factory/generated.

Examples

import { faker } from '@faker-js/faker';
import { createTeamMemberFactory } from 'prisma-factory/generated';

export const createTeamMember = () => {
  const TeamMemberFactory = createTeamMemberFactory();

  // This example uses faker to generate random data
  return TeamMemberFactory.create({
    name: faker.name.findName(),
    createdAt: faker.date.past(),
    updatedAt: new Date(),
    role: faker.name.jobTitle(),
    description: faker.lorem.sentence(),
    image: faker.image.avatar(),
    twitter: '#',
    linkedin: '#',
  });
};

Database Seeding

To use prisma-factory to seed your database, you can write a script to create data using the generated factory functions:

#!/usr/bin/env node

import { PrismaClient } from 'prisma/client';
import { faker } from '@faker-js/faker';
import { createTeamMemberFactory } from 'prisma-factory/generated';

const prisma = new PrismaClient();

export const createTeamMember = () => {
  const TeamMemberFactory = createTeamMemberFactory();

  // This example uses faker to generate random data
  return TeamMemberFactory.create({
    name: faker.name.findName(),
    createdAt: faker.date.past(),
    updatedAt: new Date(),
    role: faker.name.jobTitle(),
    description: faker.lorem.sentence(),
    image: faker.image.avatar(),
    twitter: '#',
    linkedin: '#',
  });
};

async function main() {
  try {
    for (let i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
      await createTeamMember();
    }
  } catch (error) {
    console.warn('Please define your seed data.');
    console.error(error);
  }
}

main()
  .catch((err) => {
    console.error(err);
    process.exit(1);
  })
  .finally(async () => {
    await prisma.$disconnect();
    process.exit(0);
  });