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16 changes: 8 additions & 8 deletions README.md
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Most programming languages have libraries or modules that allow your program to dynamically interact with information stored in a database. With our end-goal in mind we are going to use the *Node.js* framework. The reason we are using Node.js is because a lot of infrastructure on the web is built around JavaScript. The node website explains itself well:

```
Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Node.js uses

>Node.js® is a JavaScript runtime built on Chrome's V8 JavaScript engine. Node.js uses
an event-driven, non-blocking I/O model that makes it lightweight and efficient.

Node.js' package ecosystem, npm, is the largest ecosystem of open source libraries
>Node.js' package ecosystem, npm, is the largest ecosystem of open source libraries
in the world.
```

Node.js (along with various packages) will allows us to
* Create code that changes the contents of your database
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First the **credentials.json** file:

```{json}
```json
{
"user" : "testy_pete",
"password" : "not really my password"
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And now for all the magic in **showDatabases.js**:

```{js}
```js
var credentials = require('./credentials.json');

var mysql=require("mysql");
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console.log('Error looking up databases');
} else {
console.log('Returned values were ',rows);
}
}
});

connection.end()
console.log("All done now.");
```
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If you pay close attention to the output you might notice something a bit odd: The output *All done now.* appears before everything else. What's up with that?

Let me simplify the code a bit:
```{js}
```js
connection=<setup>;
connection.connect(function(err){...});
connection.query('SHOW DATABASES',function(err,rows,fields){...});
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