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'