Step 12
We are going to have mongoose connect to our MongoDB cluster.
First, we install the dotenv package:
npm install dotenv
Then create a .env
file in the root of your application with the following content:
DB_ADMIN_PASSWORD="your-password-goes-here"
Open the .gitignore
file and add the following to it, to ensure the .env
file is not stored in your git repository:
.env
Create a new file data/db.js
with the following content:
require("dotenv").config();
const mongoose = require("mongoose");
const password = process.env.DB_ADMIN_PASSWORD;
const dbname = "younote-db";
const URI = `mongodb+srv://younote-admin:${password}@younote-api.cwpws.mongodb.net/${dbname}?retryWrites=true&w=majority`;
const option = {
useNewUrlParser: true,
useUnifiedTopology: true,
useFindAndModify: false,
};
function connect() {
mongoose.connect(URI, option);
mongoose.connection.on("error", (err) => {
console.log(err);
});
mongoose.connection.on("open", () => {
console.log("Connected to MongoDB!");
});
}
module.exports = { connect };