title	description	ms.topic	ms.date	ms.custom
Use JavaScript on Azure MySQL	To create or move your MySQL database to Azure, you need a MySQL resource.	include	08/08/2022	devx-track-js, devx-track-azurecli

Create an Azure Database for MySQL resource

You can create a resource with:

• Azure CLI
• Azure portal
• @azure/arm-mysql

[!INCLUDE Azure CLI commands]

View and use your MySQL on Azure

While developing your MySQL database with JavaScript, use one of the following tools:

• Azure Cloud Shell's mysql CLI
• MySQL Workbench
• Visual Studio Code extension

Use SDK packages to develop your MySQL on Azure

The Azure MySQL uses npm packages already available, such as:

• MySQL
• Promise-mysql

Use Promise-mysql SDK to connect to MySQL on Azure

To connect and use your MySQL on Azure with JavaScript, use the following procedure.

Note

This article contains references to the term slave, a term that Microsoft no longer uses. When the term is removed from the software, we’ll remove it from this article.

1. Make sure Node.js and npm are installed.

2. Create a Node.js project in a new folder:

   mkdir MySQLDemo && \
       cd MySQLDemo && \
       npm init -y && \
       npm install promise-mysql && \
       touch index.js && \
       code .

   The command:

   • creates a project folder named MySQLDemo
   • changes the Bash terminal into that folder
   • initializes the project, which creates the package.json file
   • installs the promise-mysql npm package - to use async/await
   • creates the index.js script file
   • opens the project in Visual Studio Code

3. Copy the following JavaScript code into index.js:

   :::code language="JavaScript" source="~/../js-e2e/database/mysql/index.js" :::

4. Replace the host, user, and password with your values in the script for your connection configuration object, config.

5. Run the script.

MySql resources

• How to deploy a JavaScript web app
• Azure Database for MySQL
• Migration with dump and restore
• Migration with MySQL Workbench