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Node.js with MySQL database.

Connecting node.js project with MySQL database is easy, follow the following steps to connect to the the database

By reading this article I believe you have installed nodee Js on your system and familiar with it.

Step1

Open your code editor.

Step2

Create a new project
Open your command prompt or terminal and enter

 mkdir project_name
 cd project_name
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Step3

Create project file.
enter

 npm init -y
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into the command prompt or terminal.

Step4

To be able to connect to mysql database you need to install MySQL module into your project.

To do this is very simple, open your CMD or terminal and enter

 npm install mysql
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this command will install the module into your project.

Step5

Now we can open connection From our project code to mysql database
add the code below to your app.js code to open a connection.


const mysql = require('mysql');

// Creating a mysql connection
const conn = mysql.createConnection({
   host: "localhost",
   user: "db_username",
   password: "db_password",
   database: "db_name"
});
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Step6

Let create a simple database and table

conn.connect((err)=>{
   if (err) throw err;
      console.log("Database connected successful");
   var sql = "CREATE TABLE books (book_name VARCHAR(255), book_description VARCHAR(255))";
   con.query(sql,(err, result)=> {
      if (err) throw err;
         console.log("Table created");
   });
});

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Vicențiu-Marian Ciorbaru

Great intro! The same tutorial will work for MariaDB, as the protocols are compatible.

Furthermore, one can use npm install mariadb to get the MariaDB connector which is a little bit faster instead.

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Marcel Nomel

You're the best one

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Marcel Nomel

Merci
je vous admire tous pour le bonheur que vous orchestrez dans la Dev community
Soyez bénis

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SILILO J. KAWANA

Awesome...

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vladi160

mysql2 is with better performance: github.com/sidorares/node-mysql2/b...

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Abayomi Ogunnusi

Thanks for this post

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Prasad • Edited

I think, using sequelize to work for MySQL will be more helpful.
sequelize.org/