Connecting to a database from Postman is not easy. In this tutorial, I will explore three possible solutions and discuss the pros and cons.

Simple Node.js script that connects to a Postgres database and exposes a simple REST endpoint:
https://glitch.com/edit/#!/node-js-ap...

Open-source tools that can help you connect to a database:

Postgres - https://node-postgres.com/
PostgreSQL, MySQL, CockroachDB, MSSQL, SQLite3, Oracle with Knex - https://github.com/knex/knex

MySQL
https://github.com/o1lab/xmysql

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