node-postgres create database

Question

I am using node-postgres, and at the beginning of my application I want to check whether the database exists or not. So my workflow idea is as following:

1. Check

Answer 1

I've just written a module for that: https://github.com/olalonde/pgtools

var pgtools = require('pgtools');
pgtools.createdb({
  user: 'postgres',
  password: 'some pass',
  port: 5432,
  host: 'localhost'
}, 'test-db', function (err, res) {
  if (err) {
    console.error(err);
    process.exit(-1);
  }
  console.log(res);
});

Hopefully it can make your code a bit cleaner.