Express + Prisma

REST API with Express, Prisma ORM and Postgres — users and posts with full CRUD.

Node.jsAPIPostgres

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What you can build with it

Backends for internal front ends
Data APIs for dashboards
Record-keeping services

What's inside

Express routes
Prisma schema with relations
Postgres via DATABASE_URL

Before you deploy

The example listens on port 3000 — set the app's port to 3000 or change it to read PORT.
Add a managed Postgres with elula init --database; the connection string is injected as DATABASE_URL.

Source

github.com/prisma/prisma-examples/tree/latest/orm/express

Start with your AI

Paste this into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex or another AI coding assistant. It copies the template into your own private repo, deploys it to Elula and gives you the live URL.

Start a new project from the Express + Prisma template at https://github.com/prisma/prisma-examples/tree/latest/orm/express and deploy it to Elula: copy the folder into a new private GitHub repo, install the Elula CLI if needed, then run elula init --database and elula deploy --no-wait. A deploy takes a few minutes: run elula status --wait 60 until it says Live, and tell me which step it's on each time. Run elula docs if anything is unclear. Give me the live URL.

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Deploy on Elula

Prefer the terminal? Start your own private copy and ship it with the CLI.

npx degit prisma/prisma-examples/orm/express#latest my-express-prisma
cd my-express-prisma && git init && git add -A && git commit -m "Start from the Express + Prisma template"
gh repo create my-express-prisma --private --source . --push
elula init --database
elula deploy

Deploy from the dashboard Install the CLI

Clone the repo

Grab just this template's folder and run it locally.

git clone --depth 1 --filter=blob:none --sparse -b latest https://github.com/prisma/prisma-examples.git
cd prisma-examples && git sparse-checkout set orm/express
cd orm/express