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MySQL Connector/Node.js - A Node.js driver for MySQL using the X Protocol and X DevAPI.
MySQL Connector/Node.js is a MySQL 8 driver for Node.js, officially supported and maintained by Oracle. It contains an implementation of the X DevAPI, an Application Programming Interface for working with the MySQL Document Store through CRUD-based, NoSQL operations.
For detailed information, please visit the official MySQL Connector/Node.js documentation.
Please refer to the README.txt and LICENSE files, available in this repository, for further details.
MySQL Connector/Node.js is free to use under the terms of the specified license and it runs on any Operating System that supports a Node.js 14.0.0 (or higher) runtime. Packages can and should be installed using the npm CLI.
Since releases do NOT follow Semantic Versioning rules, it is advised to install a specific version of the package (the latest preferably) or by using an additional standard lockfile such as npm-shrinkwrap.json
or package-lock.json
depending on the version of the npm CLI.
The recommended way for installing MySQL Connector/Node.js is by downloading and installing the package from the official npm registry. That can be done by running following command in the project root directory:
$ npm install @mysql/xdevapi --save --save-exact
Alternatively, MySQL Connector/Node.js tarballs are also available in the official download page. The package can be installed by running the following command in the project root directory:
$ npm install /path/to/mysql-connector-nodejs-<version>.tar.gz --save --save-exact
The GitHub repository contains the MySQL Connector/Node.js source code as per the latest release. No changes are published in the repository between releases.
There are a few ways to contribute to the Connector/Node.js code. Please refer to the contributing guidelines for additional information.
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MySQL Connector/Node.js - A Node.js driver for MySQL using the X Protocol and X DevAPI.
The npm package @mysql/xdevapi receives a total of 1,379 weekly downloads. As such, @mysql/xdevapi popularity was classified as popular.
We found that @mysql/xdevapi demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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