@orta I'm with you that yarn rw prisma db push isn't advertised enough and is often a better workflow. I think my only concern here is that we don't mention it at all in the tutorial so I'm not sure if it'd create confusion for new users or not. But we add these kind of comments to the template files all the time, and they're meant for intermediate or advanced usage—when the time comes. @cannikin any thoughts?

Hmm, I've never used db push before...my flow is to edit the schema file and then migrate dev. I found this "when to use each" section on Prisma's site:

So if you prototype stuff and get it where you want with push do you do a single migrate dev at the end, and then all of the changes since the last migrate are turned into a single migration file? I found this doc which makes it sound like that migrate will often result in having to reset the database from scratch, which succckkksssss.

I don't know that the tutorial needs to update, doing it the migrate way works as is and could be considered "safer" since it shouldn't result in a reset. Do we have any other docs that talk about database workflow? It would be good to include this there for sure...

I've generally only used db push if I know that the schema probably isn't right but I want to explore the space (maybe 1 times for every 20 db migrate?) - I re-use staging data locally and so data loss from the exploration isn't a thing.

Could just remove it, it is an extra choice and then no-one has to try document the nuance of it?

We can do better across the project by referencing the docs for the specific tools+libraries in use. Prisma teaches both push and migrate in their docs, so we should hand off to them. And, frankly, we should like to the docs about schema.prisma:

• https://www.prisma.io/docs/concepts/components/prisma-schema
• https://www.prisma.io/docs/guides/migrate/developing-with-prisma-migrate
• https://www.prisma.io/docs/guides/migrate/prototyping-schema-db-push

tl;dr:

• I really like the idea of updating the comments in this file
• My 👍 is to direct people to Prisma docs, 'cause "teach a (wo)man to fish..."

The problem with including (too many) links is they go stale
(Case in point: prisma.io/docs/guides/migrate/developing-with-prisma-migrate no longer exists)

How about something like this?

// Don't forget to tell Prisma about your edits to this file using
// `yarn rw prisma migrate dev` or `yarn rw prisma db push`.
// `migrage` is safer, `push` can feel like less friction.
// Read more about both here:
// https://www.prisma.io/docs/orm/prisma-migrate