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Jay Tuazon
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Why I migrated from better-sqlite3 to Node's built-in SQLite

This post was originally shared on LinkedIn as part of my build-in-public series. I'm Jerome Jay Tuazon, a fractional IT consultant helping Canadian businesses automate their operations through n8n, AI, and modern tooling. This 46-word post covers what I learned recently - I'm expanding it here with more context.


I used to have a recurring nightmare. Every time Node.js updated, my SQLite module broke. better-sqlite3 is a native module that needs to be recompiled against the exact Node version. Update Node and you rebuild native modules or your pipeline crashes on the next cron run.


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