diff --git a/pkgs/api/_deploy.ts b/pkgs/api/_deploy.ts
index 3703d7a..b985ac3 100644
--- a/pkgs/api/_deploy.ts
+++ b/pkgs/api/_deploy.ts
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 import { $ } from "execa";
 import * as fs from "fs";
-import { dirAsync, removeAsync, writeAsync } from "fs-jetpack";
+import { dirAsync, readAsync, removeAsync, writeAsync } from "fs-jetpack";
 import { apiContext } from "service-srv";
 import { deploy } from "utils/deploy";
 import { dir } from "utils/dir";
 import { g } from "utils/global";
+import { parse } from "utils/parse-env";
 import { restartServer } from "utils/restart";
 
 export const _ = {
@@ -55,30 +56,39 @@ DATABASE_URL="${action.url}"
         return "ok";
       case "db-pull":
         {
-          await writeAsync(
-            dir("app/db/prisma/schema.prisma"),
-            `\
-generator client {
-  provider = "prisma-client-js"
-}
+          const env = await readAsync(dir("app/db/.env"));
+          if (env) {
+            const ENV = parse(env);
+            if (typeof ENV.DATABASE_URL === "string") {
+              const type = ENV.DATABASE_URL.split("://").shift();
+              if (type) {
+                await writeAsync(
+                  dir("app/db/prisma/schema.prisma"),
+                  `\
+    generator client {
+      provider = "prisma-client-js"
+    }
+    
+    datasource db {
+      provider = "${type}"
+      url      = env("DATABASE_URL")
+    }`
+                );
 
-datasource db {
-  provider = "postgresql"
-  url      = env("DATABASE_URL")
-}`
-          );
-
-          try {
-            await $({ cwd: dir("app/db") })`bun install`;
-            await $({ cwd: dir("app/db") })`bun prisma db pull --force`;
-            await $({ cwd: dir("app/db") })`bun prisma generate`;
-          } catch (e) {
-            console.error(e);
+                try {
+                  await $({ cwd: dir("app/db") })`bun install`;
+                  await $({ cwd: dir("app/db") })`bun prisma db pull --force`;
+                  await $({ cwd: dir("app/db") })`bun prisma generate`;
+                } catch (e) {
+                  console.error(e);
+                }
+                res.send("ok");
+                setTimeout(() => {
+                  restartServer();
+                }, 300);
+              }
+            }
           }
-          res.send("ok");
-          setTimeout(() => {
-            restartServer();
-          }, 300);
         }
         break;
       case "restart":
diff --git a/pkgs/server/create.ts b/pkgs/server/create.ts
index a9c2dca..fd24d33 100644
--- a/pkgs/server/create.ts
+++ b/pkgs/server/create.ts
@@ -72,13 +72,12 @@ export const createServer = async () => {
     }
   }
 
-  await g.deploy.server?.init?.();
-
   g.server = Bun.serve({
     port: g.port,
     maxRequestBodySize: 1024 * 1024 * 128,
     async fetch(req) {
       const url = new URL(req.url) as URL;
+      const prasi = {};
 
       const handle = async (req: Request) => {
         const api = await serveAPI(url, req);
@@ -146,6 +145,7 @@ export const createServer = async () => {
               server: g.server,
               url: { pathname: url.pathname, raw: url },
               index: g.deploy.index,
+              prasi,
             });
           } catch (e) {
             console.error(e);
@@ -163,3 +163,5 @@ export const createServer = async () => {
     g.log.info(`Started at port: ${g.server.port}`);
   }
 };
+
+await g.deploy.server?.init?.({ port: g.server.port });
diff --git a/pkgs/utils/global.ts b/pkgs/utils/global.ts
index 4c8655a..8452bae 100644
--- a/pkgs/utils/global.ts
+++ b/pkgs/utils/global.ts
@@ -32,6 +32,7 @@ type PrasiServer = {
     mode: "dev" | "prod";
     handle: (req: Request) => Promise<Response>;
     index: { head: string[]; body: string[]; render: () => string };
+    prasi: { page_id?: string };
   }) => Promise<Response>;
   init?: (arg: { port: number }) => Promise<void>;
 };
diff --git a/pkgs/utils/parse-env.ts b/pkgs/utils/parse-env.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a03ed2f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/pkgs/utils/parse-env.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,66 @@
+/** We don't normalize anything, so it is just strings and strings. */
+export type Data = Record<string, string>;
+
+/** We typecast the value as a string so that it is compatible with envfiles.  */
+export type Input = Record<string, any>;
+
+// perhaps in the future we can use @bevry/json's toJSON and parseJSON and JSON.stringify to support more advanced types
+
+function removeQuotes(str: string) {
+  // Check if the string starts and ends with single or double quotes
+  if (
+    (str.startsWith('"') && str.endsWith('"')) ||
+    (str.startsWith("'") && str.endsWith("'"))
+  ) {
+    // Remove the quotes
+    return str.slice(1, -1);
+  }
+  // If the string is not wrapped in quotes, return it as is
+  return str;
+}
+
+/** Parse an envfile string. */
+export function parse(src: string): Data {
+  const result: Data = {};
+  const lines = splitInLines(src);
+  for (const line of lines) {
+    const match = line.match(/^([^=:#]+?)[=:]((.|\n)*)/);
+    if (match) {
+      const key = match[1].trim();
+      const value = removeQuotes(match[2].trim());
+      result[key] = value;
+    }
+  }
+  return result;
+}
+
+/** Turn an object into an envfile string. */
+export function stringify(obj: Input): string {
+  let result = "";
+  for (const [key, value] of Object.entries(obj)) {
+    if (key) {
+      const line = `${key}=${jsonValueToEnv(value)}`;
+      result += line + "\n";
+    }
+  }
+  return result;
+}
+
+function splitInLines(src: string): string[] {
+  return src
+    .replace(/("[\s\S]*?")/g, (_m, cg) => {
+      return cg.replace(/\n/g, "%%LINE-BREAK%%");
+    })
+    .split("\n")
+    .filter((i) => Boolean(i.trim()))
+    .map((i) => i.replace(/%%LINE-BREAK%%/g, "\n"));
+}
+
+function jsonValueToEnv(value: any): string {
+  let processedValue = String(value);
+  processedValue = processedValue.replace(/\n/g, "\\n");
+  processedValue = processedValue.includes("\\n")
+    ? `"${processedValue}"`
+    : processedValue;
+  return processedValue;
+}