loopback-connector-mysql/README.md

loopback-connector-mysql

loopback-connector-mysql is the MySQL connector module for loopback-datasource-juggler.

For complete documentation, see StrongLoop Documentation | MySQL Connector.

Installation

npm install loopback-connector-mysql --save

Basic use

To use it you need loopback-datasource-juggler.

1. Setup dependencies in package.json:

   {
     ...
     "dependencies": {
       "loopback-datasource-juggler": "latest",
       "loopback-connector-mysql": "latest"
     },
     ...
   }
   

2. Use:

       var DataSource = require('loopback-datasource-juggler').DataSource;
       var dataSource = new DataSource('mysql', {
           host: 'localhost',
           port: 3306,
           database: 'mydb',
           username: 'myuser',
           password: 'mypass'
       });
   

   You can optionally pass a few additional parameters supported by node-mysql, most particularly password and collation. Collation currently defaults to utf8_general_ci. The collation value will also be used to derive the connection charset.