How to Build a Full-stack App With Next.js, Prisma, Postgres, and Fastify

In this article, we’ll learn how to build a Full-stack application using Next.js, Prisma, Postgres, and Fastify. We will build an attendance management demo application that manages employees’ attendance. The flow of the app is simple: an administrative user logs in, creates an attendance sheet for the day, then every employee signs in and out of the attendance sheet.

What Is Next.js?

Next.js is a flexible React framework that gives you building blocks to create fast web applications. It is often called the full-stack React framework as it makes it possible to have both frontend and backend applications on the same codebase doing so with serverless functions.

What Is Prisma?

Prisma is an open-source, Node.js and Typescript ORM that drastically simplifies data modeling, migrations, and data access for SQL databases. At the time of writing this article, Prisma supports the following database management systems: PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, SQLite, AWS Aurora, Microsoft SQL Server, Azure SQL, and MongoDB. You might also want to click here to see the list of all supported database management systems.