NestJS + Prisma Project Generator

A CLI tool to quickly scaffold a NestJS + Prisma project with pre-configured Swagger, Authentication, AWS S3 integration, and Prisma setup.

NestJS Prisma Generator CLI

A CLI tool to quickly scaffold a NestJS + Prisma project with built-in support for:

• Prisma ORM with migrations and seeding
• Swagger (OpenAPI) setup
• Authentication boilerplate
• AWS S3 integration
• Logging via Winston (rotating logs and DB persistence)

Compatible with Node.js >=18 and NestJS v10+.

Installation

Quick Start Guide

Once the CLI is installed, you can use the following commands:

1️⃣ Install CLI globally

npm install -g nestjs-prisma-cli

2️⃣ Check CLI version

nestgen -v

or

nestgen --version

3️⃣ Generate a new project

nestgen

? Enter your project name: my-app
Step 2: ? Select your database: (Use arrow keys)
        MySQL
        PostgreSQL
        SQLite
        MongoDB
        CockroachDB
        SQLServer
Step 3: 🎉 Project ready! Next steps:

Navigate into your project

cd my-app

Update .env

DATABASE_URL="your_database_connection_string"

npx prisma generate

SQL Databases

(PostgreSQL, MySQL, SQLite, CockroachDB, SQLServer)

npx prisma migrate dev --name init

NoSQL Database

(MongoDB)

npx prisma db push

Then, follow this

npx ts-node prisma/seed.ts

npm run start:dev