This sounds extremely impressive! One question: Most of my nodejs code relies he...

8n4vidtmkvmk · on July 6, 2022

try mysql3! j/k. i wrote it so I'm biased but it hasn't seen much use outside my projects

noduerme · on July 6, 2022

heh. I understand. No one uses mine either. I wrote it around the core to cache server-side prepared statements and old PDO style bindings (WHERE `field`=:var)

I will check yours out if you post a link! or is it just node-mysql3?

8n4vidtmkvmk · on July 6, 2022

https://www.npmjs.com/package/mysql3

It's main selling point is that it uses template strings so you can just do

sql`select f from t where x=${somevar}`

And the lib will take care of escaping somevar. I was getting sick of ORMs which make it even harder to write complex queries.

It's just a wrapper over mysql1 or 2. I forget which