MongoDB, Mongoose, and REST APIs – Part 1

In this chapter, you're going to learn how to connect your Node applications to the MongoDB database you've been running on your local machine. This means that we'll be able to issue database commands right inside of our Node apps to do stuff like insert, update, delete, or read data. This is going to be critical if we're ever going to make that Todo REST API. When someone hits one of our API endpoints, we want to manipulate the database, whether it's reading all of the Todos or adding a new one. Before we can do any of that though, we have to learn the basics.