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At a glance

The Composer getting-started page stops guessing local ports:

- curl localhost:3001
+ curl "$(npx prisma dev url gateway)"
✔ The service gateway is running at http://localhost:3001
Make it work, make it right, make it fast.

That output is from following the page as written against the published prisma@8.0.0-rc.24.

What this PR changes

  1. The Composer pages use prisma dev url instead of hard-coded ports, and document the new local-dev commands.
  2. The CLI reference documents prisma dev url, prisma dev stop and prisma dev --detach, and gains a page for prisma emulator.
  3. Pages that said a piped prisma command prints JSON now say it prints plain data, and that JSON needs --json.
  4. Pages that named 8.0.0-rc.23 as the current release now name 8.0.0-rc.24.

Why

prisma dev runs a Composer app on local stand-ins for Prisma Cloud, called emulators. It gives services the lowest free ports from 3000. So localhost:3001 is right only when nothing else holds those ports, and only when the services start in a particular order. prisma@8.0.0-rc.24 adds commands that report where things are running, so the docs can stop guessing.

The new commands

prisma@8.0.0-rc.24 ships four, which come from Composer 0.32.0:

  • prisma dev url <address> prints where one part of the app answers: a service's URL, a database's connection string, or a bucket's S3 address. Piped, it prints the bare URL, so $(…) works.
  • prisma dev --detach starts the app, waits until every service answers, and returns, leaving the app running.
  • prisma dev stop stops the app. Its data and ports are kept.
  • prisma emulator list shows everything the local emulators run on this machine.

The release also changes the whole CLI. A piped prisma command used to print JSON frames. Now it prints the command's plain data, and --json gives the structured result.

Pages

  • composer/getting-started.mdx: step 6 verifies from a second terminal with curl "$(npx prisma dev url gateway)". The 401 example reaches quotes the same way. In a terminal, dev url prints a confirmation line on stderr above curl's output, and the page shows that line too.
  • composer/local-development.mdx: rewritten to match Composer's own running-locally guide. It covers ports and how a service keeps its port across restarts, dev url, --detach, dev stop, each directory getting its own services and data, what --fresh deletes, and emulator list. It also fixes the logs example, which was missing the config input the log operation requires, and drops two caveats Composer no longer has.
  • cli/dev.mdx and the new cli/emulator.mdx: the commands, flags, piped and --json output, and the four DEV.* errors. emulator is registered in cli/meta.json.
  • cli/global-flags.mdx and cli/configuration.mdx: what a pipe gets for a list, a single value, and a command with nothing to print. They note that deploy and the ORM commands don't print plain data to a pipe yet, and that rc.23 and earlier gave a pipe JSON.
  • Other pages with hard-coded ports or old pipe output:
    • (index)/full-stack-tutorial, (index)/prisma-compute/deploy and guides/compute/astro-marketing-site use prisma dev url. The Astro guide also showed a stale JSON frame, replaced with the real output.
    • The agent prompts in (index)/index and composer/porting-an-app use --detach, dev url and dev stop.
    • guides/deployment/docker and guides/deployment/turborepo no longer show JSON where a pipe now gets plain output.
  • local-development/postgres.mdx: the Prisma 7 prisma dev ls and prisma dev stop mentions now read npx prisma@7 …, because prisma dev stop means something different in Prisma 8.
  • Version bumps, following the last bump:
    • orm/release-status, from-scratch, solid-start and upgrade-prisma-orm/postgresql name rc.24.
    • Nine pages that show prisma orm init output now show @prisma/cli-engine@0.9.0, which is what rc.24 installs.

Testing performed

  • The getting-started page, followed as written in a fresh directory with npx prisma@8.0.0-rc.24, through prisma dev, dev url, curl, the 401 probe, a rebuild and prisma dev stop. The page now matches what the published package prints.
  • The other new pages were run against the CLI built from the same source: dev url (plain, piped and --json), --detach, dev stop, emulator list and the errors.
  • Docs checks: pnpm check (docs; unrelated formatter changes reverted), pnpm types:check, pnpm lint:links (0 errors), lint:versions, cspell (0 issues), and lint:agent-ready (0 failures). Two reader-review passes were made on the new text.
  • Not run: pnpm build, which fetches the OpenAPI spec over the network.

Alternatives considered

  • Keep the ports and explain why they might differ. The page would still be wrong on any machine where something else holds port 3000, and in a second checkout of the same app.
  • Use prisma dev --detach on the getting-started page, so the reader needs only one terminal. That's simpler, but the page's flow teaches the foreground watch loop (rebuild, restart), which --detach doesn't run. --detach is documented on the local-development page instead.

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  • Documentation
    • Expanded local development guidance for detached execution, service URL discovery, emulator management, readiness checks, logging, persistent state, and clean shutdown.
    • Added CLI documentation for emulator listing, development lifecycle commands, output formats, scripting, and JSON behavior.
    • Clarified that piped output remains human-readable unless JSON is explicitly requested.
    • Updated tutorials and deployment guides with current command examples, version information, migration output, and service verification workflows.
    • Clarified contract output destinations and redirection behavior.

wmadden-electric and others added 5 commits October 19, 2026 18:04
…list; piped output is plain data

Composer 0.32 and the prisma release after 8.0.0-rc.23 add `prisma dev url`,
`prisma dev stop`, `prisma dev --detach` and `prisma emulator list`, keep local
services, databases and buckets per directory, and stop Postgres servers when
`prisma dev` ends. The CLI also writes plain data lines to a piped stdout; JSON
needs --json.

- cli/dev: url and stop subcommands, --detach, the DEV.* failure codes.
- cli/emulator: new reference page, registered in cli/meta.json.
- cli/global-flags, cli/configuration: a pipe gets data lines, not JSON.
- composer/getting-started: verify with curl "$(npx prisma dev url gateway)"
  from a second terminal instead of hard-coded ports.
- composer/local-development: ports, dev url, --detach, dev stop, per-directory
  isolation, --fresh, emulator list; the log example passes config, which the
  log operation requires; drop the --fresh and stale-endpoint caveats Composer
  no longer has.
- Guides and prompts that hard-coded local Composer ports or ran dev in the
  background now use dev url, --detach and dev stop; docker and turborepo no
  longer say the CLI prints JSON without a terminal.

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…h, emulator list and plain piped output

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…ing-started output

prisma 8.0.0-rc.24 is npm latest and depends on @prisma/cli-engine 0.9.0,
which `prisma orm init` now installs. Bump the pins lint:versions checks.

Following composer/getting-started with the published rc.24 showed that, in
a terminal, `curl "$(npx prisma dev url gateway)"` also prints dev url's
own line ("✔ The service gateway is running at ...") above the response,
so the expected output now shows it, and the 401 probe shows its response.

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The documentation updates local development workflows, expands Prisma CLI references, clarifies output formats, and refreshes documented package and release versions.

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Local development documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
CLI and Composer command reference
apps/docs/content/docs/cli/*, apps/docs/content/docs/composer/local-development.mdx, apps/docs/content/docs/composer/getting-started.mdx
The references describe prisma dev startup and readiness, dev url, --detach, dev stop, emulator listing, state persistence, and logging.
Local development examples
apps/docs/content/docs/(index)/*, apps/docs/content/docs/composer/porting-an-app.mdx, apps/docs/content/docs/guides/compute/astro-marketing-site.mdx, apps/docs/content/docs/local-development/postgres.mdx
Tutorials and guides use service URL lookup, detached development commands, and explicit shutdown during local verification.

CLI output documentation

Layer / File(s) Summary
Output modes and examples
apps/docs/content/docs/cli/configuration.mdx, apps/docs/content/docs/cli/global-flags.mdx, apps/docs/content/docs/cli/contract-print.mdx, apps/docs/content/docs/guides/deployment/docker.mdx, apps/docs/content/docs/guides/deployment/turborepo.mdx
The documentation states that human output is the default and JSON requires an explicit flag. Contract output and Docker migration examples now describe standard-output routing and human-readable output.

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Layer / File(s) Summary
Installation and release versions
apps/docs/content/docs/(index)/prisma-orm/*, apps/docs/content/docs/guides/deployment/*, apps/docs/content/docs/guides/frameworks/*, apps/docs/content/docs/guides/switch-to-prisma-orm/*, apps/docs/content/docs/guides/upgrade-prisma-orm/postgresql.mdx, apps/docs/content/docs/orm/release-status.mdx
Installation examples and version guidance show updated Prisma CLI, CLI engine, and skill versions. The release-status table lists 8.0.0-rc.24 as the latest Prisma version.

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  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/docs/content/docs/(index)/full-stack-tutorial.mdx: The agent workflow now starts detached local development with --detach, obtains the app service URL via npx prisma dev url app, and explicitly runs npx prisma dev stop, replacing background startup and manual URL waiting.
  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/docs/content/docs/(index)/full-stack-tutorial.mdx: The local verification instructions now explain that dev selects a free service port and use curl "$(npx prisma dev url app)/users" instead of the previously hard-coded http://localhost:3000/users URL.
  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/docs/content/docs/(index)/index.mdx: The local Prisma Compute verification flow now runs the module detached, obtains URLs per service, checks each with curl, and explicitly stops the development environment instead of running the module in the foreground and curling one printed URL.
  • observed — Modified behavior in apps/docs/content/docs/(index)/prisma-compute/deploy.mdx: Replaced the single-step instruction to curl the displayed local URL with explicit two-terminal steps: retrieve the web service URL using prisma dev url web, curl it, and then confirm the expected response.
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…ame the Prisma 7 server to stop

Checked against prisma 8.0.0-rc.24: `contract print` writes its PSL to
standard output and `contract emit` writes the paths it emitted, while
`migration list`, `migration status` and `contract format` write nothing.
global-flags now says that instead of "no Prisma ORM command writes data
lines", and contract-print drops the `--format human` row (human is the
default) and shows redirecting the PSL to a file.

Prisma 7's `dev stop` takes a server name; the detached server on the
local Postgres page runs as `default`.

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