A student question: Does JavaScript make context switching for web-based applications obsolete? Wow! I asked what that meant. He said, it means JavaScript replaces all other server-side programming languages, like PHP, C#, or Python. I asked the student why he believed that. His answer was that’s what two interviewing managers told him.
I thought it would be interesting to put the idea to a test.
Below is a Node.js script that acts as a utility that
queries the MySQL database with substitution variables in query.
It also returns a standard out (stdout) stream of
the MySQL query’s results. It also supports three flag and value
pairs as arguments, and optionally writes the results of the
MySQL query to a log file while still returning result as the
stdout value. All errors are written to the standard
error (stderr) stream.
The Node.js solution is completely portable between Windows …
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