Prisma is a popular data-mapping layer (ORM) for server-side JavaScript and TypeScript. Its core purpose is to simplify and automate how data moves between storage and application code. Prisma supports a wide range of datastores and provides a powerful yet flexible abstraction layer for data persistence. Get a feel for Prisma and some of its core features with this code-first tour.
An ORM layer for JavaScript
Object-relational mapping (ORM) was pioneered by the Hibernate framework in Java. The original goal of object-relational mapping was to overcome the so-called impedance mismatch between Java classes and RDBMS tables. From that idea grew the more broadly ambitious notion of a general-purpose persistence layer for applications.
