prisma-erd-generator: Prisma ERD generator fails out of nothing suddenly. Worked before.

The generator fails with the following output:

mathiasklenk@passbase lucid % npx prisma generate
Environment variables loaded from .env
Prisma schema loaded from prisma/schema.prisma
data model written to /Users/mathiasklenk/Developer/lucid/prisma/debug/1-datamodel.json
applied @map to fields written to /Users/mathiasklenk/Developer/lucid/prisma/debug/2-datamodel-map-applied.json
mermaid written to /Users/mathiasklenk/Developer/lucid/prisma/debug/3-mermaid.mmd
mermaid command:  /Users/mathiasklenk/Developer/lucid/node_modules/.bin/mmdc -i /var/folders/qs/nv116z_51jv54p5lp4bx4vm80000gn/T/prisma-erd-JhnaHt/prisma.mmd -o /Users/mathiasklenk/Developer/lucid/prisma/ERD.svg -t forest -c /var/folders/qs/nv116z_51jv54p5lp4bx4vm80000gn/T/prisma-erd-JhnaHt/config.json
Error: 
✔ Generated Prisma Client (4.5.0 | library) to ./node_modules/@prisma/client in 159ms

Command failed: /Users/mathiasklenk/Developer/lucid/node_modules/.bin/mmdc -i /var/folders/qs/nv116z_51jv54p5lp4bx4vm80000gn/T/prisma-erd-JhnaHt/prisma.mmd -o /Users/mathiasklenk/Developer/lucid/prisma/ERD.svg -t forest -c /var/folders/qs/nv116z_51jv54p5lp4bx4vm80000gn/T/prisma-erd-JhnaHt/config.json

I have it setup like this in my schema.prisma file:

generator erd {
  provider = "prisma-erd-generator"
  output   = "./ERD.svg"
  erdDebug = true
}

I’m using "prisma-erd-generator": "^1.2.1" and "@mermaid-js/mermaid-cli": "^9.1.7" in my package.json. Is this a known bug or anything I am doing wrong?

About this issue

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Created 2 years ago
Comments: 18 (8 by maintainers)

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First, sorry for all the duplicate “JNotelddim added a commit that referenced this issue” items 🙈 I was force-pushing that branch after rebasing and didn’t realize it’d affect this Issue thread.

Anyways, that aside:

Environment

I’m on MacOS Monterey (v12.4) with an M1 chip.

I’m working with prisma@4.5.0, and prisma-erd-generator@1.2.3 (as a dev dependency), node version: 18.12.0

Problem

When I try to prisma generate, I’m seeing this error:
#0 1.417 $ prisma generate                                                                                                                                                     
#0 17.29 Environment variables loaded from .env                                                                                                                                
#0 17.31 Prisma schema loaded from prisma/schema.prisma                                                                                                                        
#0 37.05 Error: 
#0 37.05 ✔ Generated Prisma Client (4.5.0 | library) to ./node_modules/@prisma/client in 459ms
#0 37.05 
#0 37.05 Command failed: /usr/src/app/node_modules/.bin/mmdc -i /tmp/prisma-erd-MGInAL/prisma.mmd -o /usr/src/app/prisma/ERD.svg -t forest -c /tmp/prisma-erd-MGInAL/config.json
#0 37.05 
#0 37.05 
#0 37.13 error Command failed with exit code 1.
#0 37.14 info Visit https://yarnpkg.com/en/docs/cli/run for documentation about this command.
(looks like the same mmdc issue that others are mentioning)

If i delete node_modules and reinstall, it does succeed – however, When I try to build this app with docker, even if I add steps in my dockerfile to manually clear the node_modules and reinstall the packages, I still see the error.

So it is manageable for local development, but I’m needing a solution for building a docker image of my app. I’m thinking of trying adding a yarn remove prisma-erd-generator step in the Dockerfile so that the image would be built without the package, but there’s still an issue of how to remove the generator erd { provider = "prisma-erd-generator" } section of the schema.prisma.

Anyways if anyone has a solution feel free to let me know 😃

Others use the disable flag to skip the ERD in docker.

keonik on Nov 10, 2022

https://github.com/keonik/prisma-erd-generator#disabled

keonik on Nov 10, 2022

@johncblandii That didn’t work for me. I tried that multiple times without any luck. The error seems to be consistent across environments (development/localhost, production/localhost, preview/Vercel, and production/Vercel).

@keonik BTW, I don’t know if this could be related or not, but I have a monorepo setup. Mentioning this just in case.

jferrettiboke on Nov 3, 2022

Yeah. I can confirm prisma-erd-generator breaks with Prisma 4.5.0.

jferrettiboke on Oct 31, 2022