Reproduce MySQL error: The server closed the connection (node.js)

Question

I\'m trying to reproduce a MySQL error I\'m seeing in my node.js app on EC2 with the node mysql library:

Connection lost: The server closed the connec

Answer 1

Check out mysql pool feature in node-mysql

var mysql = require('mysql');
var pool  = mysql.createPool({
  host     : 'example.org',
  user     : 'bob',
  password : 'secret'
});

pool.getConnection(function(err, connection) {
  // connected! (unless `err` is set)
  connection.end();
});