Build a Full-Stack Expo App with Prisma Accelerate (Deploy Fast with EAS Hosting)

Frontend, API routes, and a managed Postgres database, all living in one Expo project. That's what Expo Router unlocks now, and I put the whole stack together in the video: Prisma's managed Postgres with Accelerate for connection pooling, API routes for CRUD, and a deploy to EAS Hosting at the end.

I also cover the gotcha that trips everyone up: API routes run on Cloudflare workers, so .env files don't behave the way you expect.

What's inside

• Spin up Prisma's managed Postgres with a generous free tier, no separate provider needed
• Define a to-do schema and run migrations with npx prisma migrate dev
• Write API routes with Expo Router's +api convention
• Work around Cloudflare worker limits when reading environment variables
• Switch app.json web output to server so API routes actually run
• Deploy the whole thing with EAS Hosting

Resources

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