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