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

Imo, you should try MySQL Connector/Node.js which is the official Node.js driver for MySQL. See ref-1 and ref-2 for detailed explanation. I have tried mysqljs/mysql which is available here, but I don't find detailed documentation on classes, methods, properties of this library.

So I switched to the standard MySQL Connector/Node.js with X DevAPI, since it is an asynchronous Promise-based client library and provides good documentation. Take a look at the following code snippet :

const mysqlx = require('@mysql/xdevapi');
const rows = [];

mysqlx.getSession('mysqlx://localhost:33060')
.then(session => {
    const table = session.getSchema('testSchema').getTable('testTable');

    // The criteria is defined through the expression.
    return table.update().where('name = "bar"').set('age', 50)
        .execute()
        .then(() => {
            return table.select().orderBy('name ASC')
                .execute(row => rows.push(row));
        });
})
.then(() => {
    console.log(rows);
});