How to Reverse Order in Prisma for Fetching Data

When working with Prisma, a powerful database toolkit, you might find the need to reverse the order of your fetched data. This is particularly useful when you want to display the newest items first, similar to how Twitter operates. In this blog post, we will explore how to achieve this using Prisma’s orderBy functionality.

Let’s consider a scenario where we have a Tweets table and want to fetch the tweets in reverse order, from newest to oldest. By default, when fetching data from the database using Prisma, the items are listed in ascending order based on the specified attribute.

To reverse the order, we need to add an orderBy attribute to our findMany query. In this case, we will order our tweets by the id attribute in descending order.

Here’s an example of how you can accomplish this:

await prisma.tweet.findMany({
  orderBy: [
    {
      id: 'desc'
    }
  ]
})

By specifying id: 'desc', Prisma will retrieve the tweets in descending order based on their id. The newest tweet will be the first item in the result.

With this approach, you can easily reverse the order of your fetched data in Prisma, allowing you to present the latest entries first. Whether you’re building a social media platform or any other application that requires reverse order, Prisma’s flexible orderBy feature has got you covered.

Start leveraging Prisma’s versatility and elevate your data fetching capabilities today!