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remix/data-table/mysql

MySQL database driver for remix/data-table, backed by mysql2.

Features

  • Native mysql2 Integration: Creates a pool from mysql2 configuration or uses an existing pool or connection
  • Full data-table API Support: Queries, relations, writes, and transactions
  • MySQL Compiler: SQL compilation is handled automatically for MySQL
  • Multi-Statement Migrations: executeScript() runs up.sql / down.sql files via mysql2 (requires multipleStatements: true)
  • MySQL Capabilities Enabled By Default:
    • returning: false
    • savepoints: true
    • upsert: true
    • transactionalDdl: false
    • migrationLock: true

Installation

npm i remix mysql2

Usage

import { createMysqlDatabase } from 'remix/data-table/mysql'

let db = createMysqlDatabase({
  uri: process.env.DATABASE_URL,
  multipleStatements: true,
})

Use db.query(...), relation loading, and transactions from remix/data-table. Import any driver-specific types you need directly from mysql2/promise.

Database Capabilities

data-table-mysql reports this capability set by default:

  • returning: false
  • savepoints: true
  • upsert: true
  • transactionalDdl: false
  • migrationLock: true

Advanced Usage

Multi-Statement Migrations

remix/data-table/migrations sends each migration as a single multi-statement SQL script. mysql2 only accepts multi-statement scripts when the connection is created with multipleStatements: true:

import { createMysqlDatabase } from 'remix/data-table/mysql'

let db = createMysqlDatabase({
  uri: process.env.DATABASE_URL,
  multipleStatements: true,
})

Config-backed databases support db.wipe() and db.reset(). Call await db.close() during application shutdown to close the internally created pool. You may pass an existing mysql2 pool or connection when your application owns the driver lifecycle; db.close() leaves supplied clients alone, and destructive lifecycle methods are unavailable in that mode. db.wipe() requires a database name in the connection config (database, or the path of a connection URI) and throws when none is present.

Migration runs reserve one connection for the MySQL named lock, migration SQL, and journal updates. Lock acquisition waits up to 60 seconds and fails with an error instead of allowing the migration to proceed. After a successful run the connection is unlocked and returned to the pool; if the migration or unlock fails, the reserved connection is destroyed instead of being reused, so a dirty session can never leak back into the pool. Nested migration lock acquisition throws instead of deadlocking.

returning On MySQL

MySQL does not natively support SQL RETURNING. Using returning on write operations therefore throws DataTableQueryError.

Use write metadata (affectedRows, insertId) on MySQL, or switch databases when returned rows are required.

import { DataTableQueryError } from 'remix/data-table'

try {
  await db
    .query(Accounts)
    .insert({ email: '[email protected]', status: 'active' }, { returning: ['id'] })
} catch (error) {
  if (error instanceof DataTableQueryError) {
    // insert() returning is not supported by MySQL
  }
}

Running integration tests locally

To start a local MySQL container matching CI:

podman run --name mysql \
  -e MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD=root \
  -e MYSQL_DATABASE=remix \
  -p 3306:3306 \
  -d mysql:8

Then run:

REMIX_DATA_TABLE_MYSQL_TEST_URL=mysql://root:[email protected]:3306/remix \
pnpm test src/lib/driver.integration.test.ts

Remove the container when you are done:

podman rm -f mysql

License

See LICENSE