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The Complete Tutorial on the Top 5 Ways to Query Your Relational Database in JavaScript - Part 2

April 29, 2020

Welcome back! In the first part of this series, we looked at a very “low-level” way to interact with a relational database by sending it raw SQL strings and retrieving the results. We created a very simple Express application that we can use as an example and deployed it on Heroku with a Postgres database.

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The Complete Tutorial on the Top 5 Ways to Query your Relational Database in JavaScript - Part 1

April 28, 2020

If you’re developing web applications, you’re almost certainly going to be constantly interacting with a database. And when it comes time to select thewayyou’ll interact, the choices can be overwhelming. In this article, we’re going to look in detail at 5 different ways to interact with your database using JavaScript, and we’ll talk about the pros and cons of each. We’ll start with the lowest-level choice — SQL Commands — then move through to higher-level abstractions.

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