prisma-erd-generator

Prisma Entity Relationship Diagram Generator

Prisma generator to create an ER Diagram every time you generate your prisma client.

Like this tool? @Skn0tt started this effort with his web app ER diagram generator

npm i -D prisma-erd-generator @mermaid-js/mermaid-cli
# or
yarn add -D prisma-erd-generator @mermaid-js/mermaid-cli

Add to your schema.prisma

generator erd {
  provider = "prisma-erd-generator"
}

Run the generator

npx prisma generate

Options

Additional configuration

Output

Change output type and location

Usage

generator erd {
  provider = "prisma-erd-generator"
  output = "../ERD.svg"
}

Extensions

• svg (default: ./prisma/ERD.svg)
• png
• pdf
• md

Theme

Theme selection

Usage

generator erd {
  provider = "prisma-erd-generator"
  theme = "forest"
}

Options

• default (default)
• forest
• dark
• neutral

Disabled

You won't always need to generate a new ER diagram. To disabled running this generator just add an environment variable to the environment running prisma generate.

DISABLE_ERD=true

Debugging

If you have issues or are contributing to this repository, you may benefit from seeing logs of the steps to making your ERD. Enable debugging by adding the following environment variable and re-running prisma generate.

ERD_DEBUG=true

Contributors ✨

Thanks goes to these wonderful people (emoji key):

John Fay 🚧 💻 🤔 🐛	Jonas Strassel 🐛 💻	Steve Gray 💻 🤔	Jason Abbott 🐛 💻	Manuel Maute 🐛 💻	James Homer 💻	Jan Piotrowski 🐛 💻 👀
Luke Evers 💻

This project follows the all-contributors specification. Contributions of any kind welcome!