Where to store SQL commands for execution

Question

We face code quality issues because of inline mysql queries. Having self-written mysql queries really clutters the code and also increases code base etc.

Our code is clu

Answer 1

I prefer putting every bigger query in one file. This way you can have syntax highlighting and it's easy to load on server start. To structure this, i usually have one folder for all queries and inside that one folder for each model.

# queries/mymodel/select.mymodel.sql
SELECT * FROM mymodel;

// in mymodel.js
const fs = require('fs');
const queries = {
  select: fs.readFileSync(__dirname + '/queries/mymodel/select.mymodel.sql', 'utf8')
};