Get going with mongoose: A beginners Guide

William Thomson
Aug 29, 2017 · 6 min read

Keywords: RESTful API, Backend, Express, Mongoose, MongoDB

This is a simple guide to help you build a RESTful API and databse layer with Express.js and mongoose/mongoDB.

It’s a simple guide to get you going with mongoose that should help you get through the basic installation process up to the point of setting up some persistence code for your front end (Basic ‘get’/retrieve and ‘post’/create information to and from your database). Hopefully by then you’ll feel like you know enough to keep going, but don’t worry — I’ll also drop in…

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