diff --git a/app/api/messages/route.ts b/app/api/messages/route.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..e051b55ecc48f76cddfc9f5b1fd62483f6d56fa7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/api/messages/route.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,56 @@
+import {PrismaClient} from "@prisma/client"
+import { NextApiRequest, NextApiResponse } from "next"
+import { NextRequest, NextResponse } from "next/server"
+import { prisma } from './../../../prisma/db'
+
+export async function GET(req: NextRequest){
+	return NextResponse.json("")
+}
+
+export async function POST(req: NextRequest, res: NextResponse){
+	const data = await req.json()
+	console.log("router data: " + data, "status:")
+	
+	console.log(data)
+	try {
+		await prisma.message.create({
+	    data: data
+		})
+		
+		return NextResponse.json({status: 201, message: 'Message Created'})
+		//res.status(200).json({message: 'Message Created'})
+		//res.status(200).json({message: 'Message Created'})
+	} catch (error) {
+		console.log("Failure" + error);
+		// res.status(400)
+	}
+	console.log("post")
+	
+	
+}
+
+/* 
+export default async function handler(req: NextApiRequest, res: NextApiResponse){
+	const data = (req.body)
+
+	try {
+		await prisma.message.create({
+	    data
+		})
+		res.status(200).json({message: 'Note Created'})
+	} catch (error) {
+		console.log("Failure");
+	}
+} */
+
+/* export const postMessage = async(req: NextApiRequest , res: NextApiResponse) => {
+const data = (req.body)
+
+console.log("router data: " + data)
+
+const createdMessage = await prisma.message.create({
+    data
+})
+
+res.status(201)
+} */
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diff --git a/app/messages/PostMessageForm.tsx b/app/messages/PostMessageForm.tsx
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..3a10ea81f4fd8f3e851f7a1f436eb1c019764822
--- /dev/null
+++ b/app/messages/PostMessageForm.tsx
@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+"use client"
+
+import { useState } from "react"
+import { PrismaClient, Message } from "@prisma/client"
+
+export default function PostMessageForm(props: {data: Message[]}){
+    const [formData, setFormData] = useState({}) 
+    const [messagesState, setMessages] = useState(props.data)
+  
+    async function postMessage(e:any) {
+      e.preventDefault()
+      /* setMessages([...messagesState, formData]) */
+      console.log(formData)
+      const response = await fetch('http://localhost:3000/api/messages', {
+          method: 'POST',
+          body: JSON.stringify(formData)
+      })
+      return await response.json()
+    }
+
+    return (<div>
+        <form onSubmit={postMessage}>
+        <input type="text" placeholder="content" name="content" onChange={e => setFormData({ ...formData, content : e.target.value })}/>
+        <textarea name="content" id="" cols={30} rows={10} placeholder="content" onChange={e => setFormData({ ...formData, content: e.target.value })} />
+        <button type="submit">Post Message</button>
+        </form>
+        
+        </div>)
+}
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diff --git a/app/messages/page.tsx b/app/messages/page.tsx
index 72cb1aaf46850e51d5557badbf3522f087f2a9a0..f8ad89acdba6a504e91ff9b768a77b41db5b2053 100644
--- a/app/messages/page.tsx
+++ b/app/messages/page.tsx
@@ -1,8 +1,14 @@
-import { PrismaClient } from "@prisma/client"
+import { Message } from "@prisma/client"
+import React from "react"
+import PostMessageForm from "./PostMessageForm";
+import { prisma } from "@/prisma/db";
 
-const prisma = new PrismaClient()
+// Define a type for our props
+interface MessageProps {
+  data: Message[];
+}
 
-export default async function MessageList() {
+export default async function MessageList({data}:MessageProps) {
 
   const messages = await prisma.message.findMany()
 
@@ -10,8 +16,27 @@ export default async function MessageList() {
         <div>
             Message List Page
             {messages.map((msg) => (
-               <li key = "msg.id"> author: {msg.author} message: {msg.content} </li>
+               <li key = {msg.id}> author: {msg.author} message: {msg.content} sentAt: {msg.sentAt?.toString()} </li>
             ))}
+
+            <PostMessageForm data={messages}></PostMessageForm>
         </div>
     )
+}
+
+export async function getServerSideProps() {
+  const formData = {description: 'sdfsdf', content: 'sdfsdf'}
+  const response = await fetch('/api/messages', {
+    method: 'POST',
+    body: JSON.stringify(formData)
+})
+  console.log("answer:" + await response.json())
+
+  const messages = await prisma.message.findMany()
+
+  return {
+      props: {
+          data: messages
+      }
+  }
 }
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diff --git a/prisma/db.ts b/prisma/db.ts
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..51426edb3a8b60e8b1790015eec12a05d3693d94
--- /dev/null
+++ b/prisma/db.ts
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+import { PrismaClient } from '@prisma/client'
+
+const globalForPrisma = global as unknown as {
+  prisma: PrismaClient | undefined
+}
+
+export const prisma =
+  globalForPrisma.prisma ??
+  new PrismaClient({
+    log: ['query'],
+  })
+
+if (process.env.NODE_ENV !== 'production') globalForPrisma.prisma = prisma
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diff --git a/prisma/dev.db b/prisma/dev.db
index ce99df3791151e84ea5fb396cfff5ba87d643675..2e1fad2ef8afc8f7be55d1de65ec98f11b426a62 100644
Binary files a/prisma/dev.db and b/prisma/dev.db differ
diff --git a/prisma/migrations/20230512134632_message_change_required_fields/migration.sql b/prisma/migrations/20230512134632_message_change_required_fields/migration.sql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..377bf2b554c72a099334896114888a817bac9d16
--- /dev/null
+++ b/prisma/migrations/20230512134632_message_change_required_fields/migration.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+-- RedefineTables
+PRAGMA foreign_keys=OFF;
+CREATE TABLE "new_Message" (
+    "id" INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
+    "author" TEXT,
+    "gameId" TEXT,
+    "title" TEXT,
+    "content" TEXT NOT NULL,
+    "sentAt" DATETIME NOT NULL DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
+    "updatedAt" DATETIME
+);
+INSERT INTO "new_Message" ("author", "content", "gameId", "id", "sentAt", "title", "updatedAt") SELECT "author", "content", "gameId", "id", "sentAt", "title", "updatedAt" FROM "Message";
+DROP TABLE "Message";
+ALTER TABLE "new_Message" RENAME TO "Message";
+PRAGMA foreign_key_check;
+PRAGMA foreign_keys=ON;
diff --git a/prisma/migrations/20230512142522_/migration.sql b/prisma/migrations/20230512142522_/migration.sql
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..1c2d1c7b51b6a4aa7af3f8edcedc8fa2ce941fc8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/prisma/migrations/20230512142522_/migration.sql
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+-- RedefineTables
+PRAGMA foreign_keys=OFF;
+CREATE TABLE "new_Message" (
+    "id" INTEGER NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY AUTOINCREMENT,
+    "author" TEXT,
+    "gameId" TEXT,
+    "title" TEXT,
+    "content" TEXT NOT NULL,
+    "sentAt" DATETIME DEFAULT CURRENT_TIMESTAMP,
+    "updatedAt" DATETIME
+);
+INSERT INTO "new_Message" ("author", "content", "gameId", "id", "sentAt", "title", "updatedAt") SELECT "author", "content", "gameId", "id", "sentAt", "title", "updatedAt" FROM "Message";
+DROP TABLE "Message";
+ALTER TABLE "new_Message" RENAME TO "Message";
+PRAGMA foreign_key_check;
+PRAGMA foreign_keys=ON;
diff --git a/prisma/schema.prisma b/prisma/schema.prisma
index 996e5ab42cd9419c86ade9af39e2fc4ea1d111db..ba5b3522bffb80144e6db7595ac1d287277ec829 100644
--- a/prisma/schema.prisma
+++ b/prisma/schema.prisma
@@ -12,10 +12,10 @@ datasource db {
 
 model Message{
   id Int @id @default(autoincrement())
-  author String
-  gameId String
-  title String
+  author String?
+  gameId String?
+  title String?
   content String
-  sentAt DateTime @default(now())
+  sentAt DateTime? @default(now())
   updatedAt DateTime? @updatedAt
 }
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