query of result not friendly

[sytpb]

SELECT EXISTS (
    SELECT 1 
    FROM users 
    WHERE email = '[email protected]'
);

sometimes we query data in Db using Select Exists , hope just getting result YES or No , but the result we get like

`[
{

'EXISTS (\n       SELECT EXISTS (
SELECT 1 
FROM users 
WHERE email = '[email protected]'

))': 1

}
]
`

we need to pick "1" out ,a little hard and wierd. so this is not friendly for client code . hope that have some field like 'affectedrows':1 , or 'Exists': true/false. ...

Thanks

[sidorares]

why not just SELECT count(*) as userCount FROM users WHERE email = '[email protected]'?