Take the branch directly off of #8 's source branch. This is a sub-task of that issue.

Instructions for how to use MySQL with express can be found at http://expressjs.com/en/guide/database-integration.html#mysql .

We will need to rewrite the files that load in the data on startup, the model javascript files, as well as the queries in the api. Talk to :ocelotsloth: if you feel like helping with this issue. (to be honest I'm probably going to get this finished this weekend).