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27 lines
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tags:
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- mongo-db
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- node-js
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- mongoose
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- databases
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---
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# Connect to a database with Mongoose
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Now that we have installed and configured MongoDB, we need to connect to it via
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Node.js. Mongoose is a simple API for interacting with a Mongo database via
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Node.
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With Mongoose installed we can connect to a database. We don't have any Mongo
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databases yet beyond the defaults but the following Mongoose connection logic
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will create and connect to a new database called `playground`:
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Providing the Mongo server is running (execture `mongod`), we will see the
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confirmation message in the console.
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```js
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mongoose
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.connect("mongodb://127.0.0.1/playground")
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.then(() => console.log("Connected to MongoDB"))
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.catch((err) => console.error(err));
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```
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