Prisma init error

[pyrenaicus]

Hi,

I'm on macos sequoia 15.7.2 (24G325)
git version 2.52.0
node 24.4.1
npm 11.6.0

install and run the workshop with:

git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/epicweb-dev/data-modeling.git
cd data-modeling
npm run setup
npm start

App runs fine, I open the workshop and in exercise 01, while I cd to /playground and run the command
npx prisma init --url file:./data.db I get the following error:

Error: (0 , DSe.isError) is not a function

Clean npm and npx caches and re-install everything again with

npm cache clean --force
npx clear-npx-cache
rm -rf data-modeling
git clone --depth 1 https://github.com/epicweb-dev/data-modeling.git
cd data-modeling
npm run setup
npm start

cd to /playground and run the command npx prisma init --url file:./data.db I get the following error this time:

shell-init: error retrieving current directory: getcwd: cannot access parent directories: No such file or directory
/Users/pau/.asdf/installs/nodejs/24.4.1/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/cli/validate-engines.js:29
    throw err
    ^
Error: ENOENT: no such file or directory, uv_cwd
    at process.wrappedCwd (node:internal/bootstrap/switches/does_own_process_state:142:28)
    at process.cwd (/Users/pau/.asdf/installs/nodejs/24.4.1/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/graceful-fs/polyfills.js:10:19)
    at new Config (/Users/pau/.asdf/installs/nodejs/24.4.1/lib/node_modules/npm/node_modules/@npmcli/config/lib/index.js:79:19)
    at new Npm (/Users/pau/.asdf/installs/nodejs/24.4.1/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/npm.js:67:19)
    at module.exports (/Users/pau/.asdf/installs/nodejs/24.4.1/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/cli/entry.js:14:15)
    at module.exports (/Users/pau/.asdf/installs/nodejs/24.4.1/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/cli/validate-engines.js:37:10)
    at module.exports (/Users/pau/.asdf/installs/nodejs/24.4.1/lib/node_modules/npm/lib/cli.js:12:31)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/pau/.asdf/installs/nodejs/24.4.1/lib/node_modules/npm/bin/npx-cli.js:130:1)
    at Module._compile (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1692:14)
    at Object..js (node:internal/modules/cjs/loader:1824:10) {
  errno: -2,
  code: 'ENOENT',
  syscall: 'uv_cwd'
}
Node.js v24.4.1

🤔

[kentcdodds]

I have reproduced this issue. Thank you for reporting it. Turns out prisma v5 was using node's util module to check for errors with util.isError which has been deprecated since Node v4 😬: https://nodejs.org/docs/latest-v22.x/api/util.html#utiliserrorobject

For now, I think you can downgrade to Node v22. I'll look at what can be done without impacting the learning experience too much.

[pyrenaicus]

downgrading to node 22 solved it, thanks Kent! ✨

[kentcdodds]

Still want to make it work with node v24 :)