React-admin: Any plan on supporting Prisma ?

[Weakky]

Hey there,

Is there any plan on crafting an adaptator for Prisma's generated GraphQL API ?

react-admin already supports Graphcool's GQL API. Although Prisma should
normally be used as a data-layer behind a handcrafted GraphQL server, I think it should be ok to consider reaching the endpoint directly when dealing with backoffice CRUD stuff.

Thanks!

[djhi]

There are no plan for supporting Prisma by ourselves. However, with ra-data-graphql you should be able to roll your own. Read the ra-data-graphcool code for inspiration

[YannickB]

I'd like to second this demand, it seems that Prisma is the future for graph.cool anyway https://www.prisma.io/forum/t/graphcool-framework-and-prisma/2237

The Prisma API https://www.prisma.io/docs/reference/prisma-api/overview-ohm2ouceuj seems the natural evolution of the GraphCool API, with some good improvements, and they are clearly trying to establish a standard for Graphql CRUD operations https://github.com/opencrud/opencrud.

IMO, it totally make sense that react-admin provide a driver for Prisma/OpenCRUD in its core, and follow the standard they are establishing.

[Weakky]

@YannickB I actually started a data provider for Prisma that you can find here: https://github.com/Weakky/ra-data-prisma/

Any help would be much appreciated !

[YannickB]

@Weakky Great! I am not focused on it right now but I definitely will later.

[Weakky]

@YannickB I completely forgot about OpenCRUD however. I totally agree that this provider should not be prisma focused, but more OpenCRUD focused. This will allow to reach a wider audience in the future, starting by Prisma and GraphCMS.

[djhi]

I built ra-data-graphcool as a way to test the ra-data-graphql package and because I personally really liked graphcool (and Prisma) and used it on a side project. Unfortunately, we don't use Prisma on any projects for now, and neither do I, so we won't work on a Prisma dataProvider any time soon.

Please keep in mind that this is an open source project. We work on it when we can or when some features are required for our customers. You're welcome to become one of them though :wink:. Contact us at this address: [email protected]

@Weakky I love your README! This is a great explanation of ra-data-graphql! Would you mind opening a PR to improve its documentation? If you don't have time for it, would you mind if I shamelessly copy parts of yours? :heart:

Besides, I think your dataProvider is not yet mentionned in our documentation. Please open a PR to add it, even though is not yet finished.

[Weakky]

@djhi Thanks! I'm actually surprised you liked it considering how trivial my explanation was. As I'm not sure which part you want to merge into your README, please, feel free to copy/modify any part you'd like without credit, the MIT license is here for that 🤝
I'll make a PR to add the adaptator for sure!