Most applications need data persisted to a database. A really great way to manage data is through an (Object-relational mapping) ORM so you aren’t stuck writing SQL queries when you want to be building websites.

Prisma is a modern ORM that lets you get started with a database in just a couple steps. It supports TypeScript to which you will take advantage of.

In this lesson you will initialize Prisma in your application and model out what a Post will look like. You’ll set a few properties that Prisma will manage (e.g. id, createdAt) and a few that you will manage. Prisma also comes with a studio that you can run to create and manage data super easily when you don’t have other means to CRUD that data (we don’t yet!).