Node.js, MongoDB, and AngularJS Web Development

Creating the Server

Listing 26.2 implements the Express webserver for the application. You should recognize much of the code. The general flow of this code is to first require the necessary modules, connect to the MongoDB database, configure the Express server, and begin listening.

The following line ensures that the User model is registered in Mongoose:

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require('./models/users_model.js');

Also, the following require() adds the routes from ./routes to the Express server:

require('./routes')(app);

The following Express configuration code uses the connect-mongo library to register the MongoDB connection as the persistent store for the authenticated sessions. Notice that the connect-mongo store is passed an object ...