mysql-next
JSON →A fast, feature-rich MySQL client for Node.js (v0.1.0) leveraging ES6 tagged template literals for parameterized queries. Provides connection pooling, TLS, prepared statement caching, and TypeScript types. Released as an early-stage package targeting modern Node.js >=20.11.0. Compared to mysql2, it offers a simpler API with automatic parameter binding and insert/update helpers, but is newer and less battle-tested.