Connect MySQL database with node JavaScript application - mysql

Question

I make a node JavaScript app and deploy it on cPanel using SSH.
App is working fine without database but when I connect the app with database on cPanel (GoDaddy) it takes times and shows the message "Error establishing a database connection".
My connection code
const mysql = require('mysql');
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
var pool = mysql.createConnection({
host: 'localhost',
user: '<MY_USER_NAME>',
password: '<MY_PASSWORD>',
database: '<DB_NAME>'
});
pool.connect(function(err) {
if (err) throw err;
else{
console.log("Connected!");
}
});
module.exports = pool;
route where DB interact,but lost the connection.
app.post('/loginn', (req, res) => {
var id = req.body.id
console.log("user_id= "+id);
var sql = "select * from users where id NOT IN ('" + id + "') ";
pool.query(sql, function (err, rows) {
if (err) throw err;
else {
res.render('allusers', {
users: rows,
user_id:id
})
}
});
});

Answer 1

This answer is going to take the form of a debugging journey, because that's the only way I can see to get to the bottom of your issue.
Let's do a dead-simple representation of your app to make sure that you can send a query to MySQL and receive a response from a route-handler in Express. Setup your app like this:
const mysql = require('mysql');
const express = require('express');
const app = express();
const PORT = // define the PORT for your host
var connection = mysql.createConnection({
host: 'localhost',
user: '<MY_USER_NAME>',
password: '<MY_PASSWORD>',
database: '<DB_NAME>'
});
connection.connect(function(err) {
if (err) console.error(err);
console.log("Connected!");
});
app.get('/db-test', (req, res, next) => {
var id = // fill in a user_id that you know exists
var sql = `SELECT * FROM users WHERE id NOT IN ('${id}') `;
console.log(sql); // confirm you are sending the sql request you believe you should be sending
connection.query(sql, function (err, results, fields) {
if (err) console.error(err);
console.log(`results: ${results}\nfields: ${fields}`);
});
});
app.listen(PORT);
And then hit the route /db-test from your app, and see what happens. If this works, then we will have at least proved that you CAN make requests between Express and MySQL. Right now, I'm not sure you can, so I'm not sure what to debug.