docs(orm): /orm shows the product and the root page shows the four starting points by wmadden-electric · Pull Request #8351 · prisma/web

wmadden-electric · 2026-09-30T07:40:34Z

Open /orm today and the first thing you read is an argument for the design: "rewrites Prisma ORM in TypeScript", a three-step workflow, "What changed for developers", and a list of blog posts. After this change, the page opens with what Prisma ORM is and then shows the product in one screen:

// use prisma-8

model User {
  id    Int     @id @default(autoincrement())
  email String  @unique
  name  String?
  posts Post[]
}

const users = await db.orm.public.User.include("posts").all();

followed by the printed result, the four starting points from #8350 ("I'm creating a new app", "I have an app, but no database yet", "I have a database already", "I have a Prisma 7 app"), and a one-line map of the ORM sections. The docs root page gets a "Prisma ORM" row with the same four starting points, directly under the platform hero.

The decision

/orm describes the product and sends the reader to a starting point. It no longer argues for the design or lists blog posts. The root page names the four starting points once, in a row of its own, in place of the one "Here for the ORM?" line inside the hero. This is slice 03 of the Prisma ORM 8 docs restructure (spec: docs/orm-docs-audit/slices/03-orm-page-and-root-row/spec.md on the docs/orm8-docs-audit-design branch, #8243).

What changed, step by step

orm/index.mdx is rewritten in this order: one paragraph on what Prisma ORM is and which databases it supports today; the contract, the query, and its output, all from one run on prisma 8.0.0-rc.19 and @prisma/orm-postgres 8.0.0-rc.13; "Start here" with the four starting points; "What you can do with Prisma ORM" as one line and one link each; "Coming from Prisma ORM 7"; "Release status". The "Using Prisma ORM 7?" note, the three-step workflow, "What changed for developers", "Supported databases", "Get started", "Go deeper", and the blog list are gone. The frontmatter description says what Prisma ORM is instead of calling it "the next major version".
(index)/index.mdx loses the "Here for the ORM?" line in the hero and gains a SectionRow titled "Prisma ORM" with the four starting points as IconLinks, the same component the other rows use. The sentence under "Pick your framework" that sent Express users to the existing-database page now points them at the new row, because "I have an app, but no database yet" is usually the page they need.
orm/release-status.mdx loses its link to the /orm section that no longer exists.

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The three code blocks were rerun on the published packages in a scratch project on Node.js 24.11.1; the output block on the page is the exact output.
Both pages went through the docs reader review: the three scripts pass, and six cold reader rounds ran. The last round still asked, on /orm, what replaces $extends model methods, what contract emit writes, and how to run the example (now stated), which are questions the linked pages answer; on the root page it flagged nothing it could not restate.
Rendered in the docs app at desktop width and at 375 pixels; the second card's description on the root page was shortened so it does not truncate at phone width. All four links open the right pages.
lint:links (0 errors), lint:versions (every pinned version current), and test (70 pass) in apps/docs.

Alternatives considered

Keep "What changed for developers" on /orm. It reads as a case for the design rather than a description of the product, which was the reader complaint behind the restructure; orm/core-concepts.mdx (slice 05) is the home for the workflow.
Use Cards on the root page. The root page is full: true with its own components, and Cards does not match them; IconGrid with IconLink is what the neighbouring rows use.
Leave the Express sentence alone. It linked "I have a database already" for every Express reader, including those with no tables yet, for whom slice 02 added a page.

Stacked on #8350 (base docs/quickstart-by-starting-point); retarget to main when that merges.

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- Added Prisma ORM 8 starting paths on the docs homepage for new apps, apps without a database, existing databases, and Prisma 7 upgrades.
- Reworked the ORM overview with release-candidate status, database availability, a contract-based example, setup and query guidance, and links to related documentation.
- Updated Express and Node.js guidance to direct readers to the new starting paths.
- Removed the ORM-version shortcut beneath the homepage introduction and the overview link from the release-status page.

The Getting Started > Prisma ORM sidebar now has one Quickstart group with four entries: I'm creating a new app, I have an app but no database yet, I have a database already, and I have a Prisma 7 app. No URL changes. Adds the page pair for an app with an empty database, for PostgreSQL and MongoDB. Extends the PostgreSQL page for an existing database with what contract infer reads, what db sign checks, and the second migration. Each page in a pair names its database and links its twin. The Prisma ORM introduction shows the four starting points as cards, and link text across the docs uses the new page titles. Every command and output block on the new and extended pages comes from a run against prisma 8.0.0-rc.19 and the ORM packages at 8.0.0-rc.13. Agent: nimue-20 Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io> Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com>

…fix reader marks The MongoDB twins and from-scratch were no longer in any meta.json, so they opened with the top-level "All docs" sidebar. A meta.json can now name pages under `hiddenPages`: they belong to that folder, so they keep its section's sidebar, but the sidebar and the previous/next links do not list them. The Quickstart folder uses it for its four hidden pages and still shows exactly four entries. The orphaned add-to-existing-project/meta.json is removed. The PostgreSQL page for an existing database now uses the flags form of orm init, explains which Node.js versions need temporal-polyfill for date and time columns and where the import goes, shows how to model a table in another PostgreSQL schema, and says that db sign fails when a table with row-level security policies has no model. The MongoDB pages say why the id field is _id in queries and results. All four existing-app pages get the fixes from two cold reader rounds. Every new command and output comes from runs against prisma 8.0.0-rc.19 and the ORM packages at 8.0.0-rc.13. Agent: nimue-20 Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io> Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>

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…us and the quickstarts The 'I have an app, but no database yet' flow for PostgreSQL passes every step on Node.js 24.10.0 and 24.11.1 alike (prisma 8.0.0-rc.19, @prisma/orm-postgres 8.0.0-rc.13), so the range is not a known break. 24.11 is where Node.js 24 became a long-term support release. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>

…arting points /orm now opens with what Prisma ORM is, a contract beside the query it enables and the typed result, the four starting points from slice 02, and a one-line map of the ORM sections. The docs root page gets a Prisma ORM row with the same four starting points and loses the 'Here for the ORM?' line. The Express sentence on the root page points at the Prisma ORM row instead of the existing-database page alone. Release status loses its link to the /orm section that no longer exists. Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5.1 <noreply@anthropic.com> Signed-off-by: willbot <w.a.madden+machine@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Will Madden <madden@prisma.io>

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