Prisma vs Eloquent, how to think about the two

If you are coming from Laravel and trying out Prisma for the first time, the two ORMs feel surprisingly different even though they do the same job. This post walks through how each one thinks about your data, why the differences matter, and how to pick a mental model that fits the tool you are using. The headline difference: where the truth lives This is the single biggest thing to internalize. Laravel Eloquent stores the truth in migration files. You write migrations one at a time. Each migrati