Todo App - Making MongoDb Database Connection

So now our Todo model is ready we can now move on to make database connection with the Mongodb for that we are going to use MongoDB Atlas

Now follow the steps in this blog and get the database url which will look like this:

mongodb+srv://sample_user:<password>@my-sample-cluster-b3ugy.mongodb.net/<dbname>?retryWrites=true&w=majority

Now, Add below line in the .env file, complete the database string with your password and database name

DATABASE_URL=mongodb+srv://sample_user:<password>@my-sample-cluster-b3ugy.mongodb.net/<dbname>?retryWrites=true&w=majority

Updated .env

.env

PORT=3000

DATABASE_URL=mongodb+srv://sample_user:<password>@my-sample-cluster-b3ugy.mongodb.net/<dbname>?retryWrites=true&w=majority

Making Database Connection

Open app.js file

Import mongoose

const mongoose = require("mongoose");

Add this line below where PORT is defined:

const dbURI = process.env.DATABASE_URL;

now create a database connection

// making database object 
const connect = mongoose.connect(dbURI, {

  useNewUrlParser: true,

  useUnifiedTopology: true,

});



// connecting with database
connect.then(

  (db) => {

    console.log("Connected Successfully to Mongodb Server");

  },

  (err) => {

    console.log(err);
  }

);

Update app.js

// import express
const express = require("express");

//import mongoose
const mongoose = require("mongoose");

// import dotenv
const dotenv = require("dotenv");



// load environment variable
dotenv.config({ path: ".env" });


// read env variable using process.env.<your_env_variable_name>

const PORT = process.env.PORT;
const dbURI = process.env.DATABASE_URL;

// making connection object

const connect = mongoose.connect(dbURI, {

  useNewUrlParser: true,

  useUnifiedTopology: true,

});


// connecting with database
connect.then(
  (db) => {

    console.log("Connected Successfully to Mongodb Server");

  },

  (err) => {

    console.log(err);

  }

);


// initialize express app
const app = express();


// sending a hello response on visiting http://localhost:3000/
app.get("/", (req, res) => {

  res

    .status(200)

    .json({ message: "Hi I am Server", data: "no data on this endpoint" });

});



// listening for any HTTP requests on PORT 3000
app.listen(PORT, () => {

  console.log(`Server is running at http://localhost:${PORT}`);

});

Restart your server and you should see following output in your terminal:

Output:

Server is running at http://localhost:3000

Connected Successfully to Mongodb Server

Now we are successfully connected with the database and now we can move on to create routes and controllers, In our next section.

Todo App - Making MongoDb Database Connection

Making Database Connection

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