How to create an SQLite database in node.js

Forbes Lindesay
2 min readFeb 7, 2021

This was originally posted on atdatabases.org

SQLite is a great database for embedded use cases. e.g. if you are using node.js in IOT, or an Electron app.

To get started, install @databases/sqlite using either yarn or npm:

yarn install @databases/sqlite

or

npm install @databases/sqlite

Then you can import it (if you are using TypeScript/Babel/some other environment that supports ESModules) or require it (if you are using plain…

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Forbes Lindesay

JavaScript enthusiast and maintainer of many open source projects.