Introduction Mongoose is an Object Modeling Library(ODM). It is heavily used with nodejs when MongoDB is there. One main advantage is that it provides abstraction. MongoDB is schema-less but with mongoose, the developers can define a schema. It overcame the one main problem. Moreover, MongoDB methods can easily be used in mongoose. Another important feature … Continued
Introduction In this article, we will discuss an easy to following mongoose example with NodeJS. We will create four API endpoints in NodeJS and mongoose, each of them performing certain CRUD operations on a MongoDB database. Setup connection So let’s start by setting up a server and a connection with the MongoDB database. 123456789101112131415161718var mongoose … Continued
Introduction Express is an important part of web application development stacks such as MEAN and MERN stack. Developing web applications is not an easy task. Backend is an important part of every web application. The backend is the connectivity to databases and it also holds APIs that interact with the databases. One important part of … Continued
Introduction In this multi-part tutorial we’ll show you how to setup a basic MERN application on your locally. The MERN stack is composed MongoDB, Express, React, and NodeJS. MongoDB is the database technology, Express is a Javascript framework that assists in easily creating routes, React is the front-end framework, and NodeJS allows you to run … Continued
Add a front-end to the app We made a great deal of progress in Part 1. We’ve proven we can interact with Elasticsearch through the browser, but so far our app is not at all user friendly. In this section we’ll add a basic user interface to allow us to interact with Elasticsearch with greater … Continued
Introduction The purpose of this demo is to highlight how to integrate Elasticsearch into a simple web application. Elasticsearch can add advanced search functionality to a web application and can make drastically improve user experience. The demo application we will allow us to search for existing articles based on the title so we don’t accidentally … Continued
