From the course: Databases for Node.js Developers
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Add MongoDB and Mongoose to your project
From the course: Databases for Node.js Developers
Add MongoDB and Mongoose to your project
- [Instructor] In this video, we will now add Mongoose to our project and we will also set it up to establish the connection to MongoDB. For that I already have opened Visual Studio code and in the terminal, I'm in the shopper directory. So just make sure that you're in the right directory. So I move out again, cd .. and you have to do a cd shopper to really be in the shopper directory. And I'm now running npm install mongoose. And this will add Mongoose to the project and it will also install all sub-dependencies and one sub-dependency of Mongoose is our MongoDB driver that we used in the previous example because under the hood, Mongoose is relying on this driver as well. The next question is, where should we add the code that establishes the connection to MongoDB? And I would argue that the express server should not start at all if we cannot connect to the database, because what's the point if the database is not…
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When to use and not to use document databases2m 11s
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Set up MongoDB4m 39s
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Connect to MongoDB13m 54s
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Insert data into MongoDB6m 43s
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Query data from MongoDB4m 41s
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Introduction to Mongoose9m 24s
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Add MongoDB and Mongoose to your project5m 57s
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Define your first schema and model3m 50s
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Prepare the item management system6m 4s
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Implement all database methods7m 48s
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Implement the user management system7m 26s
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Encrypting passwords4m 40s
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