MySQL with Node.js

Question

I've just started getting into Node.js. I come from a PHP background, so I'm fairly used to using MySQL for all my database needs.

How can I use MySQL with Node.js?

Answer 1

Check out the node.js module list

• node-mysql — A node.js module implementing the MySQL protocol
• node-mysql2 — Yet another pure JS async driver. Pipelining, prepared statements.
• node-mysql-libmysqlclient — MySQL asynchronous bindings based on libmysqlclient

node-mysql looks simple enough:

var mysql      = require('mysql'); var connection = mysql.createConnection({   host     : 'example.org',   user     : 'bob',   password : 'secret', });  connection.connect(function(err) {   // connected! (unless `err` is set) }); 

Queries:

var post  = {id: 1, title: 'Hello MySQL'}; var query = connection.query('INSERT INTO posts SET ?', post, function(err, result) {   // Neat! }); console.log(query.sql); // INSERT INTO posts SET `id` = 1, `title` = 'Hello MySQL'