Sumit Kumar - Projects

Sometimes you just want to peek at a schema, tweak one row, or check if isAdmin is actually true for some user - and firing up a full SQL client, or writing a one-off query, feels like overkill for that. Prisma Studio already solves this reasonably well, but I wanted something even lighter, so I built PrismViewer.

The workflow: paste a database connection URL in. It runs prisma db pull behind the scenes to introspect the schema, spins up a local viewer, and gives you a quick UI to browse tables and fields - no writing queries, no opening a heavier client, no scaffolding an app just to check one value.

I've half-jokingly called it "Prisma Cloud" for fun, but it's really more like Prisma Viewer Lite - built for exactly one job: get you from "I have a DB URL" to "I can see what's actually in there" in the fewest possible steps.

Under the hood it's nothing fancy - Node.js, Prisma, and a simple frontend that renders tables - and it's explicitly local-dev-focused, not production-ready. But it saves real time on the days where the alternative is opening pgAdmin just to confirm one field, and that's really the whole point: not everything has to be polished to be genuinely useful.