https://www.npmjs.com/package/mysql3 https://www.npmjs.com/package/mysql3 It's main selling point is that it uses template strings so you can just do sql`sele

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