Intro to Node’s built-in SQLite module

Finally, in (6), we create a select prepared statement and then run it with query.all(), outputting the results to the console:

$ node --experimental-sqlite physicists.mjs 
[
  {
    id: 1,
    name: 'Albert Einstein',
    quote: "I believe in Spinoza's God"
  },
  {
    id: 2,
    name: 'Marie Curie',
    quote: 'Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood'
  },
  {
    id: 3,
    name: 'Richard Feynman',
    quote: 'Nobody understands quantum mechanics.'
  }
]

If we want to save the table to disk, we can change the database parameter to a filename where the data will be stored:

const database = new DatabaseSync('myFile.db');

With that simple change, we have a persistent mechanism for sharing data across different processes and programs. If we run our earlier example with this configuration, we will see the myFilename.db file on disk: