Created by James Drummond
almost 10 years ago
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Great introduction to Express and mongo installation: http://cwbuecheler.com/web/tutorials/2013/node-express-mongo/You need to 'mongod' from the command line - I think this is the Mongo daemon.Run 'mongo' from the command line to get a console from which you can run mongo commands.Connect to the database in app.js:// Add Mongo connection var mongo = require('mongodb');var monk = require('monk'); // Allow easy queries on the databasevar db = monk('localhost:27017/nodetest1'); // Make our db accessible to our router // THIS CODE MUST BE AHEAD OF THE ROUTES CODE OR THE APP WILL NOT WORKapp.use(function(req,res,next){ req.db = db; next();}); app.use('/', routes); app.use('/users', users);
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