prisma2 generate generates files into wrong directory

[joeyaurel]

I am working with the Prisma2 Tutorial but am getting stuck where someone has to perform a prisma2 generate. (https://github.com/prisma/prisma2/blob/master/docs/tutorial.md#6-generate-photon-js)

It gets generated into the prisma/node_modules/ directory but should get generated into the root node_modules/ directory. My working directory is Prisma2 which contains the root node_modules/ directory.

Prisma version: 2.0.0-preview-3.2

[joeyaurel]

Update: After removing both node_modules/ directories and running npm install again it works.

Don't know what that was. Will open the issue again when it happens again.

[darioielardi]

I'm having the same problem, when I get to that tutorial step and I run prisma2 generate it generates the client in a node_modules folder inside the prisma folder, which is the only folder in the project.

So I tried to run npm init to get the node_modules folder in the project root, delete the generated folder ( the whole new prisma/node_modules ) and then run again prisma2 generate, which now managed to generates the client in the node_modules root folder of the project.

[pantharshit00]

I can now confirm this.

This only happens when there is no node_modules folder in the root at first. So you can run into this if you are using the postgres flow.

Steps to reproduce:

1. Initialize a project using postgres flow
2. Add a sample model and the photon generator to the schema.
3. Run prisma2 generate.