Fetching data

Before diving into this chapter, make sure you've followed the steps in the technical requirements section. Once you've completed the setup guide, let's briefly revisit the key steps to prevent any issues:

1. Run npm i to install all dependencies.
2. If you are missing a .env file in your project’s root, create a new .env file and add the following line to it:

   DATABASE_URL="file:./dev.db"

   Prisma – our database toolkit of choice – uses the DATABASE_URL environment variable to connect to our database.

3. Next, run npm run build to generate the Prisma client for our data schema. Prisma reads our Prisma schema from the prisma/schema.prisma file and generates types and functions for us to work with.
4. Run npm run update:db to create or update the SQLite database. We use SQLite with Prisma to persist our development data.
5. Finally, run npm run seed to seed our local database with mock data. You can find the mock script...