Deploy Prisma Apps with create-prisma

create-prisma now scaffolds Compute-ready Prisma apps with prisma.compute.ts, compute:deploy, Prisma Postgres, and Prisma Skills add-ons.

create-prisma now scaffolds apps that deploy to Prisma Compute out of the box.

Run the initializer, pick a Compute-ready template, and the generated project can include:

• Prisma schema, client helper, seed file, database scripts, and env file
• prisma.compute.ts with the app's Compute defaults
• Prisma Postgres setup, when selected
• Prisma Skills, the Prisma MCP server, and editor add-ons, when selected
• a compute:deploy script for later deploys

bun create prisma@latest

The deploy config it writes for you

For Compute-ready templates, the scaffold and the deploy defaults live in the same repo. The generated env file, app name, port, and framework drive the first deploy and every redeploy after it.

For a Hono app, create-prisma writes a config like this:

import { defineComputeConfig } from "@prisma/compute-sdk/config";

export default defineComputeConfig({
  app: {
    name: "my-api",
    framework: "hono",
    httpPort: 8080,
    env: ".env",
  },
});

That file is the whole deploy contract. For a closer look at it, including how it scales to monorepos, see Configure Prisma Compute deploys in TypeScript.

Add-ons that set your agent up

The add-ons are optional, but the Skills add-on changes how an agent works with the repo. It installs Prisma Agent Skills from prisma/skills, including the prisma-compute skill for deploys, logs, domains, and the rest of the Compute workflow.

With that in place, your agent already knows how to change the app and redeploy it. You don't have to spell out the steps in every prompt.

Redeploying after a change

A project created with create-prisma ships with prisma.compute.ts and a compute:deploy script.

After you make a change, redeploy from the project:

cd my-api
bun run compute:deploy

The script redeploys your app code using the defaults in prisma.compute.ts. Database provisioning and migrations stay outside the deploy script.

For an app you didn't scaffold, call the Prisma CLI directly:

bunx @prisma/cli@latest app deploy

Where to go next

create-prisma gets you from nothing to a deployed app and database in one command, with the config already wired up. From here:

• Read Configure Prisma Compute deploys in TypeScript to understand prisma.compute.ts and monorepo deploys in depth.
• Follow the deploy quickstart to take the generated app to a live URL.
• Browse the Prisma Compute docs for branching, environment variables, and the full CLI reference.

Compute is in public beta and free while the beta lasts. It runs your app on the same infrastructure as Prisma Postgres, which has a generous free tier of its own, so the project you scaffold today already has somewhere to run. Tell us what you build in #prisma-compute on Discord.