Having to to npm install in the production build for Prisma

[wvhulle]

I am using SvelteKit and the Typescript package Prisma Client together. Prisma Client is a dependency that has to be generated before the app can run. Generating the Prisma Client and then running the development version with npm run dev works.

But when I build with npm run build, I cannot run the app with node without doing another npm insrtall for the Prisma Client with npx prisma generate.

I'm using the following gitlab-ci.yaml script:

deploy:
  image: alpine
  before_script:
  - apk update && apk add openssh-client rsync
  script:
  - mkdir -p ~/.ssh
  - eval "$(ssh-agent -s)"
  - echo "$PRIVATE_KEY" | ssh-add -
  - ssh-keyscan -H $WEB_SERVER_IP >> ~/.ssh/known_hosts
  - rsync -chavzP --stats . "root@$WEB_SERVER_IP:~/dsp-app"     
  - ssh root@$WEB_SERVER_IP "cd $FOLDER; npm install"
  - ssh root@$WEB_SERVER_IP "cd $FOLDER; npx prisma generate --schema src/lib/backend/prisma/schema.prisma"
  - ssh root@$WEB_SERVER_IP "cd $FOLDER; npm run build"
  - ssh root@$WEB_SERVER_IP "cd $FOLDER; pm2 delete index 2> /dev/null || true"
  - ssh root@$WEB_SERVER_IP "cd $FOLDER; pm2 startup"
  - ssh root@$WEB_SERVER_IP "cd $FOLDER; pm2 start -f build/index.js  --watch"
  - ssh root@$WEB_SERVER_IP "cd $FOLDER; pm2 save"

Is there a way to bundle the Prisma Client with npm build so I don't have to do npm install on the production server which runs node?

[ignatiusmb]

No, and you shouldn't bundle dependencies if you're using the node adapter. You can read more on this at https://github.com/sveltejs/kit/tree/master/packages/adapter-node#deploying and see this discussion on why.