Architecture

Understanding the following information should not be required knowledge for using Nexus Prisma. It is primarily here for internal maintenance and collaboration. But we're happy for whatever benefit you get out of it too.

1. You or a script (CI, programmatic, etc.) run $ prisma generate.
2. Prisma generator system reads your Prisma schema file
3. Prisma generator system runs the Nexus Prisma generator passing it the "DMMF", a structured representation of your Prisma schema.
4. Nexus Prisma generator reads your Nexus Prisma generator configuration if present.
5. Nexus Prisma generator writes generated source code. By default into a special place within the nexus-prisma package in your node_modules. However, you can configure this location.
6. Later when you run your code it imports nexus-prisma which hits the generated entrypoint.
7. The generated runtime is actually thin, making use of a larger static runtime.