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Advanced Node.js Development

You're reading from   Advanced Node.js Development Master Node.js by building real-world applications

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788393935
Length 592 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Andrew Mead Andrew Mead
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Preface 1. Getting Set Up FREE CHAPTER 2. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 1 3. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 2 4. MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 3 5. Real-Time Web Apps with Socket.io 6. Generating newMessage and newLocationMessage 7. Styling Our Chat Page as a Web App 8. The Join Page and Passing Room Data 9. ES7 classes 10. Async/Await Project Setup 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Connecting to MongoDB and writing data

To connect to our MongoDB database from inside of Node.js, we're going to be using an npm module created by the MongoDB team. It's called node-mongodb-native, but it includes all of the features you'll need to connect to and interact with your database. To get to it, we're going to Google node-mongodb-native:

The GitHub repo, which should be the first link, is the one we want—the node-mongodb-native repository—and if we scroll down, we can take a look at a few important links:

First up we have documentation, and we also have our api-docs; these are going to be critical as we start exploring the features that we have inside of this library. If we scroll down further on this page, we'll find a ton of examples on how to get started. We'll be going through a lot of this stuff in this chapter, but...

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