Can i specify which binary target to include in node_modules?

[ADrejta]

Hi everyone.

I want to specify a binary target when generating the client based on if I'm working locally or I am deploying an application.

I know that i can specify it in the target in the schema.prisma file like so:

generator client {
  provider      = "prisma-client-js"
  binaryTargets = ["native", "rhel-openssl-1.0.x"]
}

But this includes both the engines when i want to deploy an application.

If i use only the native value then i can work on it only locally and it won't work in the production environment, while if i include only the production binary target i can't work on the application locally. But if i include both of them they get packaged into node_modules and their sizes are quite large (40MB for each binary target).

Can i specify when i run prisma generate which of the binary targets i want to generate?
Or is it only in the schema.prisma file at the moment?

[janpio]

You can for example load the value for binaryTargets from an environment variable - and then change the value in your build or deploy script. An alternative is to remove the unwanted binary from the archive you are deploying.

[ADrejta]

Loading them from an environment variable seems like a more hassle free approach. Thanks for your help 🙂

[janpio]

Yep, all depends on what you want to achieve, where and why. Happy this works for you 👍