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Full-Stack React, TypeScript, and Node - Second Edition
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In this chapter, we transformed our Express API from a fragile, in-memory prototype into a production-ready application backed by a real database.
The journey started with understanding why databases matter and how relational databases organize data into tables with schemas, constraints, and relationships. From there, PostgreSQL gave us the engine: data types, primary keys, foreign keys, indexes, and ACID transactions.
Prisma ORM connected all these pieces. We defined our data model in a schema file, Migrate turned schema changes into versioned SQL files, and the auto-generated Client gave us type-safe database operations without writing SQL by hand. Prisma 7's new TypeScript/WASM architecture removed the old Rust engine boundary, which means faster queries and smaller deployment bundles.
On the data modeling side, we defined one-to-one, one-to-many, and many-to-many relationships, then applied them to PostgreSQL through migration files that track every schema change.
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