I'm trying to connect to a postgres database (Postgresql-11) within my nodejs-vue.js app, but in console I'm getting this error:
[HMR] Waiting for update signal from WDS... pg.js?c8c2:27 Unable to connect to the database: TypeError: net.Socket is not a constructor at new Connection (webpack-internal:///./node_modules/pg/lib/connection.js:22:34) at new Client (webpack-internal:///./node_modules/pg/lib/client.js:55:37) at Promise.tap.query (webpack-internal:///./node_modules/sequelize/lib/dialects/postgres /connection-manager.js:124:26) at ConnectionManager.connect (webpack-internal:///./node_modules/sequelize/lib/dialects /postgres/connection-manager.js:121:12) at eval (webpack-internal:///./node_modules/sequelize/lib/dialects/abstract/connection- manager.js:318:50) From previous event: at ConnectionManager._connect (webpack-internal:///./node_modules/sequelize/lib/dialects /abstract/connection-manager.js:318:8) at ConnectionManager.getConnection (webpack-internal:///./node_modules/sequelize/lib/dialects /abstract/connection-manager.js:254:46) at eval (webpack-internal:///./node_modules/sequelize/lib/sequelize.js:640:36) From previous event: at eval (webpack-internal:///./node_modules/sequelize/lib/sequelize.js:631:53) at eval (webpack-internal:///./node_modules/retry-as-promised/index.js:70:21) at new Promise (<anonymous>) at retryAsPromised (webpack-internal:///./node_modules/retry-as-promised/index.js:60:10) at eval (webpack-internal:///./node_modules/sequelize/lib/sequelize.js:631:30) From previous event: at Sequelize.query (webpack-internal:///./node_modules/sequelize/lib/sequelize.js:580:23) at Sequelize.authenticate (webpack-internal:///./node_modules/sequelize/lib/sequelize.js:892:17) at eval (webpack-internal:///./src/plugins/db/pg.js:23:11) at Object../src/plugins/db/pg.js (https://ggc.world/js/app.js:1128:1 ) at __webpack_require__ (https://ggc.world/js/app.js:785:30) at fn (https://ggc.world/js/app.js:151:20) at eval (webpack-internal:///./src/main.js:16:72) at Module../src/main.js (https://ggc.world/js/app.js:1083:1) at __webpack_require__ (https://ggc.world/js/app.js:785:30) at fn (https://ggc.world/js/app.js:151:20) at Object.1 (https://ggc.world/js/app.js:1141:18) at __webpack_require__ (https://ggc.world/js/app.js:785:30) at checkDeferredModules (https://ggc.world/js/app.js:46:23) at https://ggc.world/js/app.js:861:18 at https://ggc.world/js/app.js:864:10 In /src/main.js : import '@/plugins/db/pg'; (base) /src/plugins/db$ ls -lah total 28K drwxr-xr-x 6 marco marco 4,0K apr 20 15:42 . drwxr-xr-x 3 marco marco 4,0K apr 20 15:41 .. drwxr-xr-x 2 marco marco 4,0K apr 20 17:20 config drwxr-xr-x 2 marco marco 4,0K apr 20 15:48 migrations drwxr-xr-x 2 marco marco 4,0K apr 20 15:48 models -rw-r--r-- 1 marco marco 819 apr 20 08:53 pg.js drwxr-xr-x 2 marco marco 4,0K apr 20 17:21 seeders nano pg.js const { Pool } = require('pg'); const { Sequelize } = require('sequelize'); const pool = new Pool(); const sequelize = new Sequelize('pusers', 'postgres', 'pwd', { host: 'localhost', dialect: 'postgres', pool: { max: 5, min: 0, acquire: 30000, idle: 10000 } }); sequelize .authenticate() .then(() => { console.log('Connection has been established successfully.'); }) .catch(err => { console.log('Unable to connect to the database:', err); }); module.exports = { query: (text, params, callback) => { return pool.query(text, params, callback); }, } Populated the sample database with a row: pusers=# SELECT schemaname,relname,n_live_tup pusers-# FROM pg_stat_user_tables pusers-# ORDER BY n_live_tup DESC; schemaname | relname | n_live_tup ------------+---------------+------------ public | pusers | 1 public | SequelizeMeta | 1 (2 rows) I read here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40599069/node-js-net-socket-is-not-a-constructor that "there are no plain TCP sockets in the browser, so that is why trying to use `net.Socket` in the browser (via webpack, browserify, etc.) won't work" Environment Info: System: OS: Linux 5.3 Ubuntu 18.04.4 LTS (Bionic Beaver) CPU: (8) x64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz Binaries: Node: 12.15.0 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.15.0/bin/node Yarn: 1.22.4 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.15.0/bin/yarn npm: 6.14.4 - ~/.nvm/versions/node/v12.15.0/bin/npm Browsers: Chrome: 81.0.4044.92 Firefox: 75.0 npmGlobalPackages: @vue/cli: 4.2.3 So... how to solve the problem? Looking forward to your kind help. Marco