nodejs-api | Node.js client for the Crypto News API by CryptoControl.io | REST library

The connection.on(...) method will not initiate the database connection itself. It only runs when the application initiates it using connection.connect() method.

Since you are exporting connection to the outside from connect.js, You should import and initiate the connection somewhere (mostly in application entry point),

When you tried it in Node.js without Discord.js, you didn't export anything and you simply called gsrun(client) after the authorisation was successful, so it worked fine. The problem is that now you try to use getData without any authorisation. Although you have client.authorize in your code, you never use it.

To solve this, I would make at least two different functions here; one for generating the client and one for the get request itself and export them both.

To generate a client I’d wrap this in a promise. This way I could use async/await later. This function will create a client with the JWT, perform the authorisation, and either resolve with the client or reject the promise depending on the results of client.authorize().

If you want only to validate your token you can use the following package: