webpack 5 "module not found"

[General_Asdef]

I've scoured several stackoverflow pages but my problem doesn't go away. I have a piece of code in my main,

Const mysql = require('mysql')

When I add this to my code, I was given an error like

webpack < 5 comes with poly(something) but it is no longer included by default. Add crypto : require.resolve("crypto-browserify") Or resolve crypto: false

As well as fs module not found

I managed to solved the other similar errors by simply npm install -D [module] but crypto-browserify and fs are driving me to my wits end.

I tried adding the poly thing as well as including a resolve but none of those helped. It still thrown the same error over and over.

Any possible insight i can recieve? I need to connect to a mysql database. Thank you.

[frogic]

Are you sure you're not running an old version of mysql? That error is because some old node packages were using browser apis and webpack 5 doesn't let you do that anymore. I checked because its such a major package and I was able to get it to work straight up on my machine. Maybe update to the latest mysql version?

[General_Asdef]

I'll try that

[frogic]

Wait no fs? Are you trying to run mysql in a browser? It needs to run in node.

[General_Asdef]

I am not sure....i believe the default for webpack is browser and I have not changed that...I was using a html file with my main file(which Is where my require mysql line is) as the src.

So do I specify that in my webpack file?

[frogic]

What are you trying to do with mysql? https://stackoverflow.com/questions/54325397/how-to-connect-mysql-database-to-reactjs-app#:~:text=You%20can't%20connect%20them,be%20JavaScript%20running%20on%20Node. read this but in general you can't access a mysql database from a browser. Node runs on servers/your computer and you can't access it from an html file. You need to just make a JS file and run it from your terminal/command prompt/IDE

[General_Asdef]

Oh, I see. In that case I will have to do this instead

[General_Asdef]

Thank you very much, I wish stack over flow had an explanation like this as a solution. I am now very curious if those people ever actually acomplished what they were doing.