Hey together, I have to connect to a postgres data...

# javascript

[Patrick Doering]

Hey together, I have to connect to a postgres database from Kotlin/JS. I don`t find any example. Is it possible to connect via exposed?

[Big Chungus]

Exposed is only available on JVM. Your best bet is SQLDelight

[altavir]

You can't connect browser to DB. Some DBs support direct http requests, but in general, you need a backend server for that.

[Big Chungus]

I assumed he's talking about nodeJS

[Patrick Doering]

Yes right.

[Patrick Doering]

I will try sqlDelight

[Robert Jaros]

I don't think you can use sqldelight from JS with Postgres

[Robert Jaros]

but you should be able to use any postgresql drivers for nodejs, e.g. https://node-postgres.com/

[altavir]

I am not sure why anyone would use kotlin-JS with node, so I could be biased.

[Robert Jaros]

nodejs has advantages in some areas, e.g. in the cloud

[Robert Jaros]

it's just another runtime environment, as good as all others, as long as you can write your code in Kotlin :-)

[Big Chungus]

Except for the fact that Kotlin/JVM is much more mature than Kotlin/JS 😕

[altavir]

And always will be. Because you have intermediate lanaguage layer. It could be better with WASM.

[Robert Jaros]

typescript has js layer as well and holds up well :-)

[altavir]

Well... it is questionable. I do not write in TypeScript, but I heard different opinions on that.

[Big Chungus]

I do write typescript and I have to say the experience is the same as Java in terms of maturity and stability

[Patrick Doering]

Is it possible to use sqldelight without the gradle plugin and only make some database connection and execute queries?

[Thomas Valloo]

Hey, I also want to connect to a postgres database from Kotlin/JS, did you have any luck since 2020 ? ^^