How do I do a bulk insert in mySQL using node.js

Bulk inserts are possible by using nested array, see the github page

Nested arrays are turned into grouped lists (for bulk inserts), e.g.
[['a', 'b'], ['c', 'd']] turns into ('a', 'b'), ('c', 'd')

You just insert a nested array of elements.

An example is given in here

var mysql = require('mysql');
var conn = mysql.createConnection({
    ...
});

var sql = "INSERT INTO Test (name, email, n) VALUES ?";
var values = [
    ['demian', '[email protected]', 1],
    ['john', '[email protected]', 2],
    ['mark', '[email protected]', 3],
    ['pete', '[email protected]', 4]
];
conn.query(sql, [values], function(err) {
    if (err) throw err;
    conn.end();
});

Note: values is an array of arrays wrapped in an array

[ [ [...], [...], [...] ] ]

There is also a totally different node-msql package for bulk insertion

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