Introduction NoSQL databases and running your app’s backend with Javascript have both become increasingly popular. In this tutorial we will show you how to use NodeJS to connect with MongoDB using MongoJS to setup the backend for a simple web application. If you’re unfamiliar with these technologies, MongoDB is a NoSQL database technology and NodeJS … Continued
Introduction If you’re looking to use a MongoDB database with your web application running on NodeJS you might be looking at which npm libraries which will allow you to easily interact with MongoDB. Mongoose and MongoJS are the two top choices for developers in this scenario. In this article we’ll give a quick cheat sheet … Continued
Introduction In this fourth part of the tutorial on how to build a webscraper from scratch we will concentrate on creating all the routes that our app will need. At this point we only have two routes, a homepage that serves our primary html page, and a route that scrapes for a term entered. We’ll … Continued
Introduction In this third part of the tutorial on how to build a webscraper from scratch we will concentrate on how to save the data we’ve scraped into a Mongo Database. We will be utilizing the npm packages Mongoose which is a library that takes a model based approach to creating data. If you’re just … Continued
Introduction In this second part of the tutorial on how to build a webscraper from scratch we will concentrate on doing the actual webscraping. We will be utilizing the npm packages axios and cheerio to make our job easier on us. If you’re just joining us this is multi-part series we will create a web … Continued
Introduction In this multi-part series we will create a web scraper from scratch. It will store the data it has scraped using MongoDB. The backend will be written in Javascript running on NodeJS. There are several libraries we will use on the backend to make our lives easier including Express, Axios, and Cheerio. On the … Continued
Introduction This article is for any users who are using or want to use Javascript to interact with a Mongo Database. If you’re running NodeJS and MongoDB together you’ll need to decide on a driver that will let you interact with Mongo from Javascript. The two most popular libraries for this are MongoJS and Mongoose … Continued
Introduction If you’re just getting started with MongoDB or it’s been a while since you’ve used Mongo, you might need a reference for the most common MongoDB commands. This article will give a list of the most common tasks and the MongoDB command used to do execute it. Print it out, keep it on your … Continued
Introduction You can execute javascript files from mongo but it’s not intuitive to pass parameters to them. +++ This is the issue we’ll tackle. You might have a javascript that prints your default database stats but what if you wanted to pass it a variable to which database you wanted to print stats for instead … Continued
Introduction If you work in the MongoDB Shell, you should know that the shell is actually in interactive JavaScript shell and you can run js code directly in it or you can execute javascript from a fil. Automating a set of tasks you perform frequencly might be a good idea if you’re looking to gain … Continued
