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Node.js By Example

You're reading from   Node.js By Example Learn to use Node.js by creating a fully functional social network

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2015
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781784395711
Length 220 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Preface 1. Node.js Fundamentals FREE CHAPTER 2. Architecting the Project 3. Managing Assets 4. Developing the Model-View-Controller Layers 5. Managing Users 6. Adding Friendship Capabilities 7. Posting Content 8. Creating Pages and Events 9. Tagging, Sharing, and Liking 10. Adding Real-time Chat 11. Testing the User Interface Index

Working with the MongoDB database


Nowadays, almost every web application stores and retrieves data from a database. One of the most popular databases that works well with Node.js is MongoDB (http://www.mongodb.org/). This is what we are going to use. The main characteristic of MongoDB is that it is a NoSQL database with a different data format and query language.

Installing MongoDB

As with every other popular software, MongoDB is available for all operating systems. If you are a Windows user, there is an installer that you can download from the official page http://www.mongodb.org/downloads. For Linux or OS X developers, MongoDB is reachable through most popular package management systems. We are not going to cover the installation in detail, but you will find nicely written instructions at http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/installation/.

Running MongoDB

After its successful installation, we will have a mongod command available. By running it in the terminal, we start a MongoDB server listening...

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