with-nextjs-and-vercel-and-plugins-prisma

This example shows how to add a Nexus api endpoint to a nextjs project. You can try out the deployed version right now here. For an overview of the state of Next.js integration with Nexus refer to the Next.js recipe.

Setting up for development

1. Start a postgres database

   db:start
   

2. Initialize your db schema

   db:migrate
   

3. Source development environment variables (we use direnv)

   direnv
   

4. Start nextjs dev mode

   npm run dev
   

5. In another terminal start Nexus reflection to benefit from the type safety that Nexus can give you.

   npm run nexus:reflection
   

Setting up for deployment

1. Setup an account with Vercel

2. Provision a free postgres database with heroku

   heroku create
   heroku addons:create heroku-postgresql
   

3. Copy the connection URL

   heroku pg:credentials:url
   

4. Setup DATABASE_URL environment variable (add to all stages)

   now env add DATABASE_URL
   

5. From now on you can just deploy

   npm run deploy:preview
   

Migrations

1. When you are running Nexus' dev mode then Nexus will take care of migrating your development databse

2. To migrate the production database

   now env pull
   

   Export the DATABASE_URL into your shell.

   npm run db:migrate