Not only have you configured MySQL 8 for remote connections, you’ve also created a user with access to all databases and connected to the remote server with both the command line and a GUI.

ALTER USER 'root'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY 'newpassword'; Where newpassword is the new password to be used. Exit from the MySQL shell with the command exit and you’re ready to use your ...

For the initial version I chose the most popular mysql node.js driver. It has the major advantage of being 100 percent Javascript. I suspect that it doesn’t support prepared statements because ...