Mongoose

- [Instructor] Mongoose allows us to elegantly work … with our mongodb database with object schemas. … Object schemas are JavaScript objects we create … that will represent the type of data … we will be putting in our database. … Even though mongodb is NoSQL, … and does not have structure, with Mongoose, … there is a bit of structure we must design initially. … This gives us some benefits … of easily interacting with our data through objects, … and other things such as validation. … Let's begin by installing Mongoose with npm. … (typing on keyboard) … Then inside our server js, let's require it in. … (typing on keyboard) … Next let's connect to our mLab database. … We will first need the connection string. … So let's go back to our mLab database website … and copy that from the top. … So let's copy this URI. … Then above our messages array, … let's create a db URL variable, … and set it to what we copied. … Then let's put in our user credentials. … Since I set my username and password to both user, …