Angular 2 and MySQL concepts

Question

Are there recommended concepts how to access MySQL from an Angular 2 application?

I\'m new to Angular and Typescript. I found and installed the node-mysql

Answer 1

Take a look at Angular-Meteor. If you were in any framework other than Meteor, you'd need to start implementing a series of REST endpoints to connect the server to the client.But Meteor makes writing distributed client code as simple as talking to a local database. More in this article: https://www.angular-meteor.com/tutorials/socially/angular2/3-way-data-binding

Answer 2

Communication directly from Angular to Mysql is bad practice (in most cases). Angular runs client side and exposing mysql to it allows for anybody to run arbitrary SQL statements.

The solution is to create an intermidate server. It could run nodejs, to which you can then import node-mysql. The nodejs server could expose a REST api which your angular 2 application consumes.