How To Build a REST API with TypeScript, Express and Prisma

7 min readJan 17, 2023

After seeing countless videos, articles and news regarding Prisma, a relatively new ORM on the market, I decided it’s time I check it out myself. In this article I’ll give a quick introduction to Prisma, what it does, and we’ll even create a quick REST API with TypeScript, Express, Prisma and…

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