Can't seed database in Next.js and TS project

Bug description

Can’t seed a database inside a Next.js with TypeScript project.

Seed script in package.json copied from the docs, give the following error:

  "prisma": {
    "seed": "ts-node --compiler-options \"{\\\"module\\\":\\\"CommonJS\\\"}\" prisma/seed.ts"
  },

Error:

An error occured while running the seed command:
/Users/m-abdelwahab/Desktop/next-prisma-3/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:692
    return new TSError(diagnosticText, diagnosticCodes);
           ^
TSError: ⨯ Unable to compile TypeScript:
error TS5023: Unknown compiler option '0'.
error TS5023: Unknown compiler option '1'.
error TS5023: Unknown compiler option '2'.
error TS5023: Unknown compiler option '3'.
error TS5023: Unknown compiler option '4'.
error TS5023: Unknown compiler option '5'.
error TS5023: Unknown compiler option '6'.
error TS5023: Unknown compiler option '7'.
error TS5023: Unknown compiler option '8'.
error TS5023: Unknown compiler option '9'.
error TS5023: Unknown compiler option '10'.
error TS5023: Unknown compiler option '11'.
error TS5023: Unknown compiler option '12'.
error TS5023: Unknown compiler option '13'.
error TS5023: Unknown compiler option '14'.
error TS5023: Unknown compiler option '15'.
error TS5023: Unknown compiler option '16'.
error TS5023: Unknown compiler option '17'.
error TS5023: Unknown compiler option '18'.
error TS5023: Unknown compiler option '19'.
error TS5023: Unknown compiler option '20'.

    at createTSError (/Users/m-abdelwahab/Desktop/next-prisma-3/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:692:12)
    at reportTSError (/Users/m-abdelwahab/Desktop/next-prisma-3/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:696:19)
    at create (/Users/m-abdelwahab/Desktop/next-prisma-3/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:707:36)
    at Object.register (/Users/m-abdelwahab/Desktop/next-prisma-3/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:485:19)
    at main (/Users/m-abdelwahab/Desktop/next-prisma-3/node_modules/ts-node/src/bin.ts:249:19)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/m-abdelwahab/Desktop/next-prisma-3/node_modules/ts-node/src/bin.ts:482:3)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1072:14)
    at Object.Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1101:10)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:937:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:12) {
  diagnosticText: "\x1B[91merror\x1B[0m\x1B[90m TS5023: \x1B[0mUnknown compiler option '0'.\n" +
    "\x1B[91merror\x1B[0m\x1B[90m TS5023: \x1B[0mUnknown compiler option '1'.\n" +
    "\x1B[91merror\x1B[0m\x1B[90m TS5023: \x1B[0mUnknown compiler option '2'.\n" +
    "\x1B[91merror\x1B[0m\x1B[90m TS5023: \x1B[0mUnknown compiler option '3'.\n" +
    "\x1B[91merror\x1B[0m\x1B[90m TS5023: \x1B[0mUnknown compiler option '4'.\n" +
    "\x1B[91merror\x1B[0m\x1B[90m TS5023: \x1B[0mUnknown compiler option '5'.\n" +
    "\x1B[91merror\x1B[0m\x1B[90m TS5023: \x1B[0mUnknown compiler option '6'.\n" +
    "\x1B[91merror\x1B[0m\x1B[90m TS5023: \x1B[0mUnknown compiler option '7'.\n" +
    "\x1B[91merror\x1B[0m\x1B[90m TS5023: \x1B[0mUnknown compiler option '8'.\n" +
    "\x1B[91merror\x1B[0m\x1B[90m TS5023: \x1B[0mUnknown compiler option '9'.\n" +
    "\x1B[91merror\x1B[0m\x1B[90m TS5023: \x1B[0mUnknown compiler option '10'.\n" +
    "\x1B[91merror\x1B[0m\x1B[90m TS5023: \x1B[0mUnknown compiler option '11'.\n" +
    "\x1B[91merror\x1B[0m\x1B[90m TS5023: \x1B[0mUnknown compiler option '12'.\n" +
    "\x1B[91merror\x1B[0m\x1B[90m TS5023: \x1B[0mUnknown compiler option '13'.\n" +
    "\x1B[91merror\x1B[0m\x1B[90m TS5023: \x1B[0mUnknown compiler option '14'.\n" +
    "\x1B[91merror\x1B[0m\x1B[90m TS5023: \x1B[0mUnknown compiler option '15'.\n" +
    "\x1B[91merror\x1B[0m\x1B[90m TS5023: \x1B[0mUnknown compiler option '16'.\n" +
    "\x1B[91merror\x1B[0m\x1B[90m TS5023: \x1B[0mUnknown compiler option '17'.\n" +
    "\x1B[91merror\x1B[0m\x1B[90m TS5023: \x1B[0mUnknown compiler option '18'.\n" +
    "\x1B[91merror\x1B[0m\x1B[90m TS5023: \x1B[0mUnknown compiler option '19'.\n" +
    "\x1B[91merror\x1B[0m\x1B[90m TS5023: \x1B[0mUnknown compiler option '20'.\n",
  diagnosticCodes: [
    5023, 5023, 5023, 5023,
    5023, 5023, 5023, 5023,
    5023, 5023, 5023, 5023,
    5023, 5023, 5023, 5023,
    5023, 5023, 5023, 5023,
    5023
  ]
}

Updating the script to this however, gives a different (but clearer) error:

  "prisma": {
    "seed": "ts-node prisma/seed.ts --compiler-options '{\"module\":\"CommonJS\"}'"
  },

Error:

import { PrismaClient } from '@prisma/client';
^^^^^^
SyntaxError: Cannot use import statement outside a module
    at wrapSafe (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:988:16)
    at Module._compile (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1036:27)
    at Module.m._compile (/Users/m-abdelwahab/Desktop/next-prisma-3/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:1310:23)
    at Module._extensions..js (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:1101:10)
    at Object.require.extensions.<computed> [as .ts] (/Users/m-abdelwahab/Desktop/next-prisma-3/node_modules/ts-node/src/index.ts:1313:12)
    at Module.load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:937:32)
    at Function.Module._load (internal/modules/cjs/loader.js:778:12)
    at Function.executeUserEntryPoint [as runMain] (internal/modules/run_main.js:76:12)
    at main (/Users/m-abdelwahab/Desktop/next-prisma-3/node_modules/ts-node/src/bin.ts:331:12)
    at Object.<anonymous> (/Users/m-abdelwahab/Desktop/next-prisma-3/node_modules/ts-node/src/bin.ts:482:3)

Updating the module value to CommonJS in the tsconfig.json file fixes it. Is this a good solution? What are the downsides of doing this. I saw a solution where one can create another tsconfig.json file with different settings and use that with ts-node but it seems overkill

How to reproduce

Clone this example repo and try running npx prisma db seed

Expected behavior

It should seed the database.

Prisma information

Example repo above

Environment & setup

• OS: MacOS
• Database: tried PostgreSQL and SQLite
• Node.js version: v14.17.4

Prisma Version

prisma                  : 3.0.2
@prisma/client          : 3.0.2
Current platform        : darwin
Query Engine (Node-API) : libquery-engine 2452cc6313d52b8b9a96999ac0e974d0aedf88db (at node_modules/@prisma/engines/libquery_engine-darwin.dylib.node)
Migration Engine        : migration-engine-cli 2452cc6313d52b8b9a96999ac0e974d0aedf88db (at node_modules/@prisma/engines/migration-engine-darwin)
Introspection Engine    : introspection-core 2452cc6313d52b8b9a96999ac0e974d0aedf88db (at node_modules/@prisma/engines/introspection-engine-darwin)
Format Binary           : prisma-fmt 2452cc6313d52b8b9a96999ac0e974d0aedf88db (at node_modules/@prisma/engines/prisma-fmt-darwin)
Default Engines Hash    : 2452cc6313d52b8b9a96999ac0e974d0aedf88db
Studio                  : 0.423.0

[kurniawanw0194]

Try replace it with:

"prisma": {
  "seed": "ts-node -O {\"module\":\"CommonJS\"} prisma/seed.ts"
}

[kkomelin]

Thank you very much @m-abdelwahab for reporting the issue and @kurniawanw0194 for the solution! You saved my time.

@pantharshit00 Is it possible to add this solution to the Prisma 3 documentation? Thanks