March 2018
Intermediate to advanced
592 pages
13h 44m
English
Content preview from Advanced Node.js Development
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Installing MongoDB and Robomongo for Windows
If you're on Windows, this is the installation section for you. If you're on Linux or macOS, the previous section was for you; you can skip this one. Our goal here is to install MongoDB on our machines, which will let us create a local MongoDB database server. We'll be able to connect to that server with Node.js, and we'll be able to read and write data to the database. This will be fantastic for the Todo API, which will be responsible for reading and writing various Todo-related information.
To get started, we'll grab the MongoDB installer by going over to mongodb.com. Here we can click on the big green Download button; also, we can see several options on this page:
We'll use Community Server ...