Prisma provides useful error classes and error codes, but handling them manually in every Express controller can quickly become repetitive.

A typical controller may need to check whether an error came from Prisma, inspect its code, select an HTTP status, hide database details in production, and return a consistent JSON response.

The ds-express-errors package can handle this centrally. ZERO DEPENDENCIES

It automatically recognizes Prisma errors and converts them into appropriate HTTP responses.

The usual manual approach