Introduction In Parts 1 and 2 we have setup our Node.Js / Express server, React Router, and we are ready to move onto setting up the database. How To Installing MongoDB In the meanwhile, we set up the Node.js / Express server. So we are ready to go for setting up the database. Let’s install … Continued

Introduction In part 1 of this series we setup the basic react app using create-react-app and installed Bootstrap to add some styling. In this part 2 of the series we’ll move onto setting up React Router, creating React components for our UI, and start setting up our backend with Express. How To So let’s jump … Continued

Introduction Today, we are going to set up a project environment for a basic project using React, Node, and MongoDB. This guide is not for absolute beginners, so if you want to understand how things work you must have a little grasp over these programs and libraries. So without wasting time, let’s get started: Prerequisites … Continued

Introduction In this article we’ll show you how to start MongoDB on Mac. The first section is for those who already have MongoDB installed and just need to start it. If you do not have MongoDB installed we have also included a section that will show you how to install it via Homebrew and then … Continued

Introduction In this article we’ll discuss the MongoDB concept and some of the characteristics and goals of this technology. We also give you a small bit of history of the technology which will give you some context why MongoDB was developed. What is MongoDB? MongoDB is a document database whose functionality depends on a document … Continued

Introduction There can be quite a bit of confusion about non relational databases especially since the term “non relational database” doesn’t really define what it is, but what it isn’t. We’ll quickly cover what a non relational database is and then we’ll go over some of the technologies and how it’s different and consider some … Continued

Introduction In this article we’ll talk about the $lookup in MongoDB. We’ll talk about what it does and how to execute one. We’ll go over an example in the MongoDB Shell so you can gain a concrete understanding. Prerequisites You should have MongoDB installed on your system. You can follow along using the MongoDB Shell … Continued

Introduction In this article we’ll show you how to show a list of the collections in a database in MongoDB. There are different ways to do this but we’ll first show you the quick and easy way before we show you the other. We’ll show how to do it in the MongoDB Shell because that … Continued

Introduction The purpose of this article is to show you the simplest way to remove an index in MongoDB. We’ll first demo how to do in the MongoDB Shell because the syntax is almost exactly the same across the long list of drivers including NodeJS, PHP, Python. We will also show how to remove it … Continued