February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
344 pages
6h 37m
English
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Chapter 5. Database
When I was a kid, I obsessively collected sports cards of all types. A big part of collecting the cards was organizing them. I kept the star players in one box, basketball superstar Michael Jordan had an entire box dedicated to his cards, and the rest of my cards were kept organized by sport, and suborganized by team. This organization method enabled me to store the cards safely and easily find the card that I was looking for at any given time. Little did I know, but a storage system like this is the tangible equivalent to a database. At its core, a database allows us to store information and retrieve it later.
When I first started out with web development, I found databases intimidating. I would see instructions for running a database and entering obscure SQL commands, and it felt like an additional level of abstraction that I couldn’t wrap my head around. Thankfully, I was eventually able to scale the wall and am no longer intimidated by a SQL table join, so if you are where I was, I want you to know that it is possible to navigate the world of databases.
In this book we’ll be using MongoDB as our database of choice. I’ve chosen Mongo because it is a popular choice in the Node.js ecosystem and is a great database to get started with for anyone who is new to the topic. Mongo stores our data in “documents” that work like JavaScript objects. This means that we will be able to write and retrieve information in a format that is familiar to any JavaScript developer. ...
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