blog: prisma alternative

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Documentation
  • Added a new blog article presenting ZenStack V3 as an alternative to Prisma. Covers history, dual API design (ORM and query-builder), built-in access control, strongly typed JSON, polymorphic models, extensibility (schema language, runtime plugins, CLI generators), footprint comparison, migration notes, use cases, and links to docs and community resources. Includes illustrative code examples and migration guidance.

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Walkthrough

Adds a new blog article at blog/prisma-alternative/index.md that presents ZenStack V3 as a Prisma alternative, describing history, dual API (ORM + Kysely query builder), built-in features, extensibility, migration notes, code examples, and links to docs/community (no code behavior changes).

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Summary

Blog article blog/prisma-alternative/index.md

New Markdown post with YAML frontmatter (title, description, tags, authors, date, image) and full article content covering ZenStack V3 overview, history, dual API design (ORM + Kysely), feature highlights (access control, strongly-typed JSON, polymorphic models), extensibility (ZModel DSL, ORM runtime plugins, CLI generators), footprint/migration discussion, TypeScript and ZModel examples, and links to docs and community.

Estimated code review effort

🎯 2 (Simple) | ⏱️ ~10 minutes

• Validate frontmatter metadata (title, authors, date, image path).
• Quick editorial review for clarity, grammar, and tone.
• Check TypeScript and ZModel code blocks for syntax consistency.
• Verify external/internal links reference the correct docs or community pages.

Pre-merge checks and finishing touches

✅ Passed checks (3 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Description Check	✅ Passed	Check skipped - CodeRabbit’s high-level summary is enabled.
Title check	✅ Passed	The title 'blog: prisma alternative' directly and specifically describes the main change: adding a new blog article about ZenStack as a Prisma alternative.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.

✨ Finishing touches

🧪 Generate unit tests (beta)

• Create PR with unit tests
• Post copyable unit tests in a comment
• Commit unit tests in branch blog/prisma-alternative

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blog/prisma-alternative/index.md

224-224: Link text should be descriptive

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Actionable comments posted: 1

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• blog/prisma-alternative/index.md (1 hunks)

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blog/prisma-alternative/index.md

224-224: Link text should be descriptive

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🔇 Additional comments (1)

blog/prisma-alternative/index.md (1)

1-224: Blog article is well-structured and informative.

The article provides a compelling narrative comparing ZenStack V3 to Prisma, with clear sections on history, dual API design, built-in features (access control, typed JSON, polymorphic models), extensibility, and footprint. Code examples are well-formatted and illustrative. The tone is professional yet accessible, and the content flows logically from problem statement through features to conclusion.

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Actionable comments posted: 1

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Review profile: CHILL

Plan: Pro

📥 Commits

Reviewing files that changed from the base of the PR and between 9c3613e and f072b6a.

📒 Files selected for processing (1)

• blog/prisma-alternative/index.md (1 hunks)

🧰 Additional context used

🪛 markdownlint-cli2 (0.18.1)

blog/prisma-alternative/index.md

224-224: Link text should be descriptive

(MD059, descriptive-link-text)

🔇 Additional comments (1)

blog/prisma-alternative/index.md (1)

1-223: Content quality and structure look excellent!

The article is well-organized, engaging, and makes a compelling case for ZenStack V3. The code examples effectively illustrate the key differentiators (access control, strongly typed JSON, polymorphic models, extensibility). The history context, dual API explanation, and footprint comparison provide balanced information. Once the link text issue on line 224 is addressed, this is ready to go.